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The Death Toll of a Mass Shooting Doesn’t End at the Scene

The Death Toll of a Mass Shooting Doesn’t End at the Scene

When a mass shooting tears through an American community, we count the dead. That number—26 at Sandy Hook Elementary, 49 at Pulse nightclub, 58 in...

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Vishal R. Patel

What Happens When the World is on Fire

What Happens When the World is on Fire

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John Vaillant

What Loss Teaches Us About Living

What Loss Teaches Us About Living

The morning my brother Harry was airlifted from I-81 to the trauma center, I drove toward the hospital barely able to breathe. At a stoplight I...

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Dr. Lucy McBride

AI Won’t Fix American Education

AI Won’t Fix American Education

Every generation seems to find a new approach to fix American education. Today, it's artificial intelligence. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella,...

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Sonia Murrow

When the Government Outsources Safety, Families Pick up the Slack

When the Government Outsources Safety, Families Pick up the Slack

No more fresh raspberries this summer, one of the few foods toddlers reliably eat. Health advisors now say you should cook them in pies and jam to be...

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Corinne Low

The Chaos and Cruelty of ICE

The Chaos and Cruelty of ICE

Within the span of just six days, immigration enforcement agents fatally shot two more people, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián...

06.08.2026 3

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Naureen Shah And Denise Bell

The Quiet Miracles of Ordinary Life in New Syria

The Quiet Miracles of Ordinary Life in New Syria

I returned to Syria in the summer and found something new: the quiet miracle of ordinary life. On a July afternoon, I stood on the edge of al-Hatab...

06.08.2026 4

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Lina Sergie Attar

Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?

Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?

AI is disrupting the world of work. But can it disrupt gender inequality at home? The rise of “Care AI” offers up a tantalizing vision, one in...

05.08.2026 5

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Marianne Cooper

How to Talk Like a Human in the AI Era

How to Talk Like a Human in the AI Era

As AI becomes more prevalent in our personal and professional lives, the more we’ll need a way to stand out. In fact, skills like empathy,...

05.08.2026 8

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Matt Abrahams

What OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Tells Us About AI’s Risks

What OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Tells Us About AI’s Risks

People in AI safety circles often talk about "warning shots:” events that indicate more severe threats are on the horizon. Depending on who you...

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Garrison Lovely

The Next Fight for Fair Housing Is Online

The Next Fight for Fair Housing Is Online

For generations, homeownership has been one of the clearest pathways to economic opportunity in America, particularly for Black and Brown communities....

04.08.2026 5

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Derrick Johnson

How America’s Adversaries Have Stopped Fighting Alone

How America’s Adversaries Have Stopped Fighting Alone

American leaders have long treated Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea as separate challenges, to be managed one at a time. The U.S.-Israel war with...

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Ariane Tabatabai And John Drennan

The Cost of Extreme Heat Is Displacement

The Cost of Extreme Heat Is Displacement

This summer, as record-breaking heat sweeps across Europe and the United States, millions of people are searching for a way to cool off. They crowd...

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Kathy Baughman McLeod And Shana Tabak

How to Address America’s Crisis of Confidence

How to Address America’s Crisis of Confidence

Americans are experiencing historic national pessimism. Polls find Americans feel that the country needs major changes, but doubt these changes are...

03.08.2026 4

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Anandita Sabherwal And Gregg Sparkman

Tehran’s New Weapon Is Not a Bomb. It Is an Invoice.

Tehran’s New Weapon Is Not a Bomb. It Is an Invoice.

Iran is expanding the theater of war with an eye on the Strait of Hormuz. Last week, according to U.S. Central Command, more than 30 Iranian-directed...

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Bobby Ghosh

Clinical Trials Aren’t the Only Way to Know if Flu Shots Work

Clinical Trials Aren’t the Only Way to Know if Flu Shots Work

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped recommending that all children get an annual influenza vaccine....

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Christopher M. Worsham And Anupam B. Jena

Revolt of the Cockroaches: How India’s Gen Z Humbled Modi

Revolt of the Cockroaches: How India’s Gen Z Humbled Modi

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01.08.2026 4

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Asim Ali

Why Russia Is Choking Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports

Why Russia Is Choking Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports

It has been a summer of good news for Ukraine. Its drone strikes deep inside Russia have created gasoline shortages, strained Russia’s economy,...

31.07.2026 7

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Ian Bremmer

The Case Against Using Alcohol and Cannabis to Sleep

The Case Against Using Alcohol and Cannabis to Sleep

Good sleep is crucial to healthy functioning. If we don’t get enough sleep or if it’s of insufficient quality, we often have problems the next...

31.07.2026 3

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Joan M. Cook

Putin The Puppeteer: How Russia Benefits From Trump’s War in Iran

Putin The Puppeteer: How Russia Benefits From Trump’s War in Iran

Regrettably, the effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, with oil prices rising and Trump’s lifting of Russian oil sanctions, have...

30.07.2026 7

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Can Studying Daily Life Help Us Envision the Future?

Can Studying Daily Life Help Us Envision the Future?

The morning begins before anyone is fully awake. One parent is packing lunches while the other is answering a work message from the kitchen counter. A...

30.07.2026 6

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Frank Diana

Why Iran Cannot Fight a Forever War

Why Iran Cannot Fight a Forever War

The United States and Iran are again at war. The renewed conflict is not about Iran's nuclear program or regime change, but over the Strait of...

30.07.2026 5

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Hamidreza Azizi

Corporate America Is Getting Anxiety All Wrong

Corporate America Is Getting Anxiety All Wrong

Most companies treat anxiety as a problem to solve. When employees feel stressed, they are offered meditation apps, mental-health days, and...

30.07.2026 4

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David H. Rosmarin

How India’s Young Faced Down Modi

A botched medical entrance exam, a judge’s slur, and a young Indian student in Boston turning to satire converged to produce something India has not...

29.07.2026 20

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Yamini Aiyar

The Hidden Cost of Stress at Work

According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Americans work more hours per year than those in similar countries....

29.07.2026 5

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Lilly Springer

The Iran War Exposed Africa’s Biggest Energy Weakness

When protests over fuel prices erupted in Kenya this May, the cause lay thousands of miles away. The war between Iran, Israel, and the United States...

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Michael Adu Okyere

Chalk One Up for Ukraine

It is often hard to know who is winning the war in Ukraine. The front lines scarcely budge. The air war brings regular Russian missile strikes—the...

27.07.2026 4

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Thomas Nagorski

What Octogenarian Pop Divas Show Us About a Life Well-Lived

On May 20, Cher turned 80 years old. Beyond a celebration of one spectacular career, her birthday is an occasion to consider what it means for a woman...

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Debbie Millman

How NATO Is Quietly Reinventing Itself for Trump

The portents were not good. Before departing for the recent NATO summit in Ankara, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to berate the alliance....

24.07.2026 7

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Mark Webber

Meet Me in the Notes App

“What’s the oldest note in your phone?” my younger sister asked, in the same tone one might use to share gossip. She was explaining what she...

24.07.2026 8

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Rainesford Stauffer

The Case for Investing in Local Government

The water in Charleston does not flow through the city as a policy debate. It comes gushing over curbs, through intersections, around school buses and...

24.07.2026 10

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William Cogswell And Lauren McLean

Why The World Still Can’t Agree About Alcohol

Last month, my home country of the Netherlands published new health guidelines advising people to not just limit their alcohol intake, but to avoid it...

23.07.2026 10

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Tim Brinkhof

The Allies Who Cannot Afford to Quit America

These are not easy days for America’s allies. From Europe to the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific, security partners of the United States are...

22.07.2026 8

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Huong le Thu

Want to Be More Successful? Think Like an Explorer

Passionate workers perform better. But to truly unlock potential, leaders need to focus on cultivating a unique kind of passion among their employees....

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John Hagel

The Enduring Power of Bro Language

Words like “dude,” “man,” “bro,” and “brah” have become staples of modern language. Today, they’re not just common terms of...

22.07.2026 5

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Valerie Fridland

Why Rent Keeps Rising Because of Wall Street

Every year, millions of renters get the same bad news: the rent is going up, again. Most people assume they know why—inflation pushed costs up,...

21.07.2026 10

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Anisha Steephen

Postpartum Psychosis Is Rising. We Are Not Ready.

In a recent eight-week stretch, 6% of my postpartum patients met criteria for a psychotic disorder—almost six times higher than rates published in...

21.07.2026 10

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Dr. Uruj Kamal Haider

The Cost of America's Broken Immigration System

In the afternoon of December 9, 2021, in my third month as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, I received an urgent message from Mexico’s foreign affairs...

20.07.2026 10

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Ken Salazar

Trump, Rubio and a Zombie State In Venezuela

For decades after the 1967 Caracas earthquake, seismologists warned Venezuelans that a major earthquake was coming. And we had been waiting for the...

20.07.2026 10

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Rafael Osío Cabrices

AI’s Execution Problem

As AI reshapes institutions, industries, and economies, innovation has gained the spotlight. We celebrate breakthroughs in models, advances in science...

20.07.2026 10

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Nigel Vaz

We’re Taking Hobbies Too Far

A few weeks ago, a clip from Dominican Sisters Open Mic, a podcast featuring Catholic nuns, went viral.  “Do you have a hobby, sister?” one nun...

20.07.2026 10

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Meehika Barua

The 2026 World Cup Proved That America Can Still Do Big Things

Americans are far from optimistic about our future. According to a recent Pew Research poll, 69% of us are dissatisfied with the way things are going,...

19.07.2026 10

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Alex Lasry

What the World Should Learn from Australia’s Social Media Law

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18.07.2026 10

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Ravi Iyer

When ICE Kills, We Cannot Look Away

After sustained outrage over the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis forced a public reckoning with ICE, I hoped the worst was behind...

17.07.2026 10

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Kica Matos

What World Cup Hydration Breaks Tell Us About the Times We Live In

Everyone seems to have an opinion about the hydration breaks at this summer's World Cup. Many scoff at the need, suggesting they are another FIFA...

17.07.2026 10

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Laura Schifter

30 Years Later: The 1996 Olympics Made Atlanta Bigger, But Not More Equitable

I remember watching Michael Johnson sprint around the track in Atlanta, his gold chain swinging with every stride and his gold shoes flashing under...

17.07.2026 10

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Jeffrey Bennett

Is This the End of the Endless Frontier?

16.07.2026 10

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Eric Schmidt And Wendy Schmidt

I See My Father in the Fathers Killed by ICE

16.07.2026 10

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

A War Neither America Nor Iran Can Win

16.07.2026 10

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Sanam Vakil

The Most Important Part of Therapy Happens After You Leave the Therapist’s Office

16.07.2026 40

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Joan M. Cook