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Dire Strait: Why Economic Threats Might Escalate the War in Iran

Dire Strait: Why Economic Threats Might Escalate the War in Iran

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Hamidreza Azizi

Therapy Has a Relationship Problem

Therapy Has a Relationship Problem

Some relationships need to end.  Years ago, I treated a woman whose husband was deliberately trying to drive her toward suicide while attempting to...

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David H. Rosmarin

The Trouble With Trump’s Attempt to Rename Lake Ontario

The Trouble With Trump’s Attempt to Rename Lake Ontario

As President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a new low, he turned once again to the art of redrawing the world map. With the stroke of a pen, the...

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Reuben Rose-Redwood And Derek Alderman

The Bond Market’s Supply and Demand Problem

The Bond Market’s Supply and Demand Problem

Recently, three events related to the U.S. Treasury bond markets have drawn public attention. For one, Japan sold some of its U.S. Treasury holdings...

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Ray Dalio

When Did It Become So Hard to Make Plans With Friends?

When Did It Become So Hard to Make Plans With Friends?

I don’t expect anything of my friends that I don’t expect of myself. But lately, I’ve found myself disproportionately annoyed by tiny breaches...

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Meehika Barua

Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, and Power Promises

Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, and Power Promises

Data center companies “dug their own grave,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday, and “that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”...

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

A Two-State Solution Has Never Been More Vital

A Two-State Solution Has Never Been More Vital

The expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank, alongside the ongoing horror of life in Gaza, makes the need for a...

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Mary Robinson And Helen Clark

Why We Love Watching Robots Fail

Why We Love Watching Robots Fail

When Tiangong Ultra unofficially smashed Usain Bolt’s 100m world record in Beijing, China, unballetically flailing past the finish line in 8.86...

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Kyle Macneill

The False Fear of Noncitizen Voting

The False Fear of Noncitizen Voting

There is no epidemic of noncitizens voting in our elections. Federal law already bars it, and despite repeated allegations by a number of prominent...

26.08.2026 5

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Kica Matos

Why I Stopped Fighting AI in My Classroom and Started Teaching With It

Why I Stopped Fighting AI in My Classroom and Started Teaching With It

At a recent academic retreat I attended, the air was thick with what I can only call educational gaslighting. A panel of graduate and undergraduate...

26.08.2026 5

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Jason Corso

Countries Need to Look Beyond GDP

Countries Need to Look Beyond GDP

When governments ask people what truly matters to them, they cite things like being healthy, having a secure and affordable home, enough income to...

25.08.2026 5

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Katrín Jakobsdóttir And Nicola Sturgeon

Why AI Watermarks and Detectors Could Backfire

Why AI Watermarks and Detectors Could Backfire

Claude now watermarks AI-generated text to comply with European Union transparency rules. OpenAI and Google add invisible fingerprints to AI-generated...

25.08.2026 3

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Nadav Ziv

The Art of Mess in the AI Era

The Art of Mess in the AI Era

Look closely at a painting, and you might be able to see where an artist changed their mind. Beneath the finished surface, there may be an abandoned...

24.08.2026 10

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Debbie Millman

Why Silicon Valley’s Vision of the AI Future Should Worry You

Why Silicon Valley’s Vision of the AI Future Should Worry You

Everyone has a vision of the ultimate future, some picture of what the world looks like at its best (or worst), and whether that future is even...

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Liz Bucar

Why More Medical Testing Doesn’t Always Make Us Healthier

Why More Medical Testing Doesn’t Always Make Us Healthier

Today, if you wish, you can go get a staggering amount of granular data about your health without your doctor’s involvement. All on your own, you...

23.08.2026 7

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Dr. Matthew S. Davenport

Make the U.N. Great Again: The Uphill Struggle Facing The Next Secretary General

Make the U.N. Great Again: The Uphill Struggle Facing The Next Secretary General

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22.08.2026 10

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Richard Gowan And Daniel Forti

How to Increase Mental-Health Literacy

How to Increase Mental-Health Literacy

Imagine that someone you love starts turning down opportunities to attend social gatherings like going to the movies, picnics, and parties. Then this...

22.08.2026 10

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Joan M. Cook

What 72,000 Bodies at a Fence Revealed about Africa and Europe

What 72,000 Bodies at a Fence Revealed about Africa and Europe

Europe and Africa are at once impossibly close and worlds apart near the northern tip of Morocco. Ceuta and Melilla are two small cities overlooking...

21.08.2026 10

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Miriyam Aouragh

What Happens When the World is Run on Code No One Understands?

What Happens When the World is Run on Code No One Understands?

The International Congress of Mathematicians met in Philadelphia last month, its first U.S. meeting since 1986. Minutes after accepting the Fields...

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Patrick Shafto

As Students Return, America’s Classrooms Are Dangerously Hot

As Students Return, America’s Classrooms Are Dangerously Hot

As students go back to school in the midst of record-breaking summer heat, many are returning to overheating classrooms whose aging air conditioning...

19.08.2026 10

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Bill Frist And Jonathan Klein

Column: What It Means to Build a Truly Sustainable Ocean Economy

Column: What It Means to Build a Truly Sustainable Ocean Economy

The future of humanity is being built along the world’s coastlines. Around 2.4 billion people live within 100 km (62 mi.) of a shoreline, including...

19.08.2026 30

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Paul Polman

America’s Water Systems Are Under Attack. We Are Not Ready.

America’s Water Systems Are Under Attack. We Are Not Ready.

In late July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation received reports of cyberattacks on water facilities from utility companies in at least seven states...

19.08.2026 10

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Alexander Noyes

20 Years After Virginia Tech, We Can Do More to Keep Students Safe

20 Years After Virginia Tech, We Can Do More to Keep Students Safe

Every August, our country celebrates new beginnings. Families fill cars with bedding, desk lamps, laptops, notebooks, and high hopes. Students...

19.08.2026 10

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Joseph Samaha

Is the World Getting Uglier?

A few blocks from where I live, a quaint, mid-size home was recently razed and replaced by a house that seems to have eaten its own property. It...

18.08.2026 10

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Debbie Millman

Can AI Help Us Connect With the Real World?

By now, everyone is accustomed to the idea that technology has disconnected us from the world and one another. By design, smartphones, apps, and...

18.08.2026 10

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Ian Bogost

The Danger of Todd Blanche’s Statements on Abortion

In the early morning hours, before the sun came up on Saturday Aug. 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as the nation’s top law enforcement...

17.08.2026 9

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Brittany Fonteno

Pilots and Flight Attendants Face a Real Cancer Risk. Frequent Flyers Shouldn’t Panic

There is a particular unease that comes from seeing that an ordinary part of life has been linked to cancer. If you fly a few times a year, the...

17.08.2026 10

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Vishal R. Patel

The Other Side of Paradise: How Pakistan Crushed Protests in Kashmir

Irish poets and American presidents have long spoken of Kashmir: its beauty and its dangers. The question of Kashmir has shaped the trajectories of...

17.08.2026 10

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Aqil Shah

The Power of Setting and Declaring a Goal

In September 2022, I set myself a very public personal goal: to run a 5-minute mile.  It was a completely mad idea. I was 58 years old, and, although...

17.08.2026 10

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Adrian Gore

You Are What You Eat: Beef, Boy Kibble, and the Search for Manhood

He sits shirtless, muscular, and shaggy, baseball hat turned backwards (of course) as he bites into a hunk of raw liver the size of a Shih Tzu. Brian...

15.08.2026 10

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Michael Kimmel

The Most Important Thing AI Can’t Do in Medicine

I was an early medical student at the University of Miami in Florida, seeing a patient in a local primary care clinic. “Abdominal pain with...

15.08.2026 50

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Dr. Natasha Chida

Why States Are the Key to the Modern Labor Movement

Unions have a history of coming together when workers need them most.  During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, labor unions sprang up in...

13.08.2026 10

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Sharon Block And Benjamin Sachs

How College Education Divided America

Shortly after pandemic-era travel restrictions eased, I flew to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with leaders from left-leaning foundations. The topic...

13.08.2026 10

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Daron Acemoglu

Can You Engineer Civic Pride? Dubai Thinks So

In the summer of 1987, I saw two men in a subway station force a third to crouch down to wipe his spit off the platform, while other commuters cheered...

13.08.2026 10

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Bobby Ghosh

Why the World Is Still Investing in America

The world is not selling America short, even if Americans sometimes do. After spending much of the past few months traveling from Europe to India to...

13.08.2026 30

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Jane Fraser

Flirting Is a Lost Art

Last year, at a party, I bumped into a handsome guy who I had met the month before at a yoga event. After exchanging pleasantries at the bar, he said,...

13.08.2026 30

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Meehika Barua

An AI Tax Could Be the Great Equalizer America Needs

An idea that until recently would have been seen as radical—that the public should co-own AI—now commands bipartisan consensus.  In June, Senator...

12.08.2026 10

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Sarah Polcz And Jeremy Bearer-Friend

The Promise We Made to Americans with Disabilities Is Under Attack

In the past, Americans with disabilities were sent off to large, isolating, state-run institutions as a matter of course. In overcrowded, understaffed...

11.08.2026 10

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Barbara Merrill And Tony Coelho

We Must Remember Nagasaki

Each August, the world pauses to remember the U.S. dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. Newspapers publish retrospectives,...

10.08.2026 10

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James M. Scott

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...

09.08.2026 20

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Vishal R. Patel

What Happens When the World is on Fire

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08.08.2026 50

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John Vaillant

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...

08.08.2026 20

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Dr. Lucy McBride

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,...

07.08.2026 10

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Sonia Murrow

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...

07.08.2026 10

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Corinne Low

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 10

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Naureen Shah And Denise Bell

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 20

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Lina Sergie Attar

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 10

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Marianne Cooper

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 20

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Matt Abrahams

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...

04.08.2026 20

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Garrison Lovely

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 20

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Derrick Johnson