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AI Colonies Are Coming

AI Colonies Are Coming

Each new release of a frontier AI model, such as Anthropic’s Mythos or OpenAI’s Astra, brings a new wave of speculation over how much closer this...

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Noah Giansiracusa

Politeness Has Changed. Our Language Shows How

Politeness Has Changed. Our Language Shows How

The next time someone does you a favor, take a minute to note how they respond to “thank you.” You’ll likely find that the traditional...

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Valerie Fridland

A New Way to Think About Women’s Heart Health

A New Way to Think About Women’s Heart Health

Women are speaking more openly about periods, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause, bringing once-taboo topics into public conversation. Clinicians...

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Sadiya S. Khan

The Public Health Consequences of an Inaccurate Census

In 2015, Chicago’s public health department identified three cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a highly dangerous pathogen that can kill...

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Dr. Julie Morita And Dr. Richard Besser

The Fight Over Who Counts in India

The Fight Over Who Counts in India

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Asim Ali

Our Brains Weren’t Built for This Much Comparison

Our Brains Weren’t Built for This Much Comparison

More than 20? Or less than 75? As I scan my feedback on a recent social media post, my brain just can’t seem to help registering the number of...

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Ashwini Nadkarni

The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Are Not Trump’s to Rename

The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Are Not Trump’s to Rename

Not content with renaming an international gulf and a cross-border lake, on Oct. 10, U.S. President Donald Trump recently floated the idea of renaming...

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Reuben Rose-Redwood

Why Trump’s Rebrand of Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligent Matters

Why Trump’s Rebrand of Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligent Matters

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran drags on, his pledge to bring down prices on day one appears to have backfired, and his record-low approval...

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David Litt

China Cannot Remain the World’s Factory. What Comes Next?

China Cannot Remain the World’s Factory. What Comes Next?

For four decades, China’s rise was built on an extraordinary bargain with the world. China offered labor, scale and, eventually, an industrial...

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Keyu Jin

Governors Have an Opportunity to Give Civics Education a Badly Needed Boost

Governors Have an Opportunity to Give Civics Education a Badly Needed Boost

Governors have no shortage of ideas about how to improve education. But before deciding what to change, they need an honest answer to a more basic...

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Lamar Alexander And Phil Bredesen

The Price of Faustian Bargains with Trump

The Price of Faustian Bargains with Trump

For the past week, President Donald Trump and his aides have traded accusations with Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, over who restricted Ukraine’s...

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld And Steven Tian

The Cornell 7 and the Problem with Writing as Punishment

The Cornell 7 and the Problem with Writing as Punishment

Justice is elusive, and there are few clearer examples of this than when people who commit acts of sexual violence are given rote tasks as a means of...

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Debbie Millman

U.S. Midterms Loom Over a Deadlock Between Trump and Tehran

U.S. Midterms Loom Over a Deadlock Between Trump and Tehran

Iran may have found a weapon in the American electoral calendar. With the midterm elections two weeks away, Tehran is intensifying attacks on shipping...

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Ali Vaez

How America's AI Trust Issues Could Impact the Midterms

How America's AI Trust Issues Could Impact the Midterms

From social media to sports betting, Americans have become remarkably willing to adopt new technologies without necessarily believing they're...

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Will Johnson

Why Satire Is No Laughing Matter

Why Satire Is No Laughing Matter

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Sacha Baron Cohen

Europe Braces for a Russian Winter

Europe Braces for a Russian Winter

In the fifth year of their war on Ukraine, Russian forces are making little headway on the battlefield. And Ukraine has used drones to bring the war...

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Ian Bremmer

Who Will Benefit From the AI Revolution?

Who Will Benefit From the AI Revolution?

The debate about how to control AI and limit its potential for damage is healthy and necessary. It is also unavoidable and urgent.  But this is not...

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David Miliband

Why Aren’t We Teaching Every Student CPR?

Why Aren’t We Teaching Every Student CPR?

In 2024, two Michigan high school students were sitting in the bleachers during a student-teacher basketball game when their physical education...

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Meng Yang And John Maa

Family Matters: The Secret History Behind Why Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear

Family Matters: The Secret History Behind Why Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear

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Joan Martelli

Zest is a Key Ingredient to Good Living

Zest is a Key Ingredient to Good Living

Approaching life with positive expectations, a get-up-and-go attitude, and eagerness is related to many good things in life. This individual asset is...

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Joan M. Cook

Billionaires Are the Symptom, Not the Disease

Billionaires Are the Symptom, Not the Disease

After nearly a century, America has rediscovered the wealth tax. This November, Californians will vote on Proposition 40, a union-backed initiative...

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Christopher Marquis

Why is France Burning?

Why is France Burning?

The French like to take to the streets, and they do it often. On Sept. 17, students at Lycée Saint-Exupéry, a rather underprivileged high school in...

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Nicholas Bequelin

Human Judgement Is the Most Powerful Technology in the AI Age

Human Judgement Is the Most Powerful Technology in the AI Age

In Ukraine, a Russian drone guided by artificial intelligence killed three civilians at a gas station, including a 19-year-old university student. In...

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Halla Tómasdóttir

Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

Ask an everyday working American, and they’ll likely tell you there’s something fundamentally wrong with our economy. Across industries, big...

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Liz Shuler And Heidi Shierholz

Access to Public Lands Should Unite All Americans

Experiencing wild, open, and natural spaces is part of what it means to me to be American, and I know I'm not alone in that belief. Our shared...

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Mary Beth Laughton

In Defense of the Disney Adult

Disney Adults are so easy to tease. People think they’re immature, embarrassing, cringe.  As such, jokes about people who enjoy visiting Disney...

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Jada Gomez

In India, a Dark Shadow Falls on Its Vaunted Elections

On Saturday, New Delhi, the Indian capital, was under siege. The Indian government deployed more than 20,000 police and paramilitary personnel,...

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Gautam Bhatia

Normalcy Bias Prevented Me from Recognizing My Daughter’s Heart Failure

I didn’t know the term yet, but early in the second year of my daughter Karuna’s life, I’d fallen into something psychologists call normalcy...

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Raj Panjabi

We Need to Bring Back Matchmaking Our Friends

Last year, I started hosting monthly house parties. When I saw two friends get on really well, I set them up on a date. “You two should go out...

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Meehika Barua

The Case for Shifting Mental Health Care From Institutions to Communities

In recent decades, many countries have made meaningful progress in developing community-based mental health services. Moreover, rights-based...

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake And Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The Benefits of Prescribing Food as Medicine

We all know that eating a healthy diet is good for us.  In fact, nutrition is one of the most powerful tools we have to prevent and manage chronic...

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Sadiya S. Khan

Under the Gun: Understanding America’s Defense Spending Paradox

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Joshua Keating

Paternity Leave Is More Than a Perk. It Builds a Baby’s Brain

We often treat paternity leave like a company perk—something HR lists next to the gym stipend and the 401k match. The research says we are wrong...

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Alvin Thomas

Why South Korea and Ukraine Are Fighting Over Two Prisoners of War

On Sept. 23, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke at the UN General Assembly about the military support Russia was getting from North Korea...

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Andrew Yeo

The Cornell 7 Case Demands More Than Outrage

By now, most of America has heard about the young woman who says she was gang raped by fraternity brothers while she was a student at Cornell...

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Tarana Burke

The New Fight to Legitimize Conversion Therapy

I spent eight years in conversion therapy trying to heal what church leaders called my “core wounds.” I did individual therapy with Christian...

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Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez

Why We Must Invest in Scientists, Not Just Science

We often think of science as a search for answers to a specific issue: a solution to a known problem, or a cure for a particular disease. In practice,...

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Nicholas B. Dirks

The Great Healthcare Cost Hike Is Here

American healthcare, the priciest healthcare system in the world, is set to get even more expensive In the coming weeks, the roughly 160 million...

08.10.2026 10

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Neale Mahoney And Abigail Sanchez

How the Unraveling of Brazil’s Social Contract Paved the Way for Bolsonaros

Picture this: after being defeated in his bid for re-election, a president refuses to concede, spreads lies about voter fraud and calls upon...

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Guilherme Casarões

Cuteness Is Political

When you think of a military general, the descriptor “cute” probably doesn’t come to mind.  But cuteness may have helped Prabowo Subianto, a...

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Chethana Achar And Carolyn Wells Keller

How to Beat Trump’s Noise Machine

On Monday night in Grand Island, Nebraska, defending the price Americans are paying for his war with Iran, President Donald Trump bragged to a...

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld And Steven Tian

What the Cornell 7 Case Reveals About Consent and Bravery

By now, most parents have likely read an article or two about the alleged assault involving a young woman and seven young men that took place at a...

07.10.2026 10

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Reshma Saujani

How Oct. 7 Changed Israel

The world changed when Hamas attacked Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, catalyzing devastating conflict throughout the region. But within Israel, political...

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Dahlia Scheindlin

The War in Iran Will Make It Harder for Americans to Stay Warm This Winter

As America’s war with Iran continues and winter approaches, families already struggling to cover rising living costs could face another financial...

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Sanya Carley

Hoping for Better, 3 Years Since Oct. 7

And I will always be the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hersh will always be my eldest child. Hersh will always be my only son. And Hersh will always...

06.10.2026 10

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Rachel Goldberg-Polin

The Ghosts That Haunt Egypt

I grew up in Cairo under Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled for longer than I had been alive. I was 15 when the revolution erupted in January 2011, a high...

06.10.2026 20

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Abdelrahman Elgendy

The Ghosts That Haunt Egypt

I grew up in Cairo under Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled for longer than I had been alive. I was 15 when the revolution erupted in January 2011, a high...

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Abdelrahman Elgendy

The Fossil Fuel Turning Point

The world has spent decades debating how to transition away from fossil fuels. Three years ago, at COP28 in Dubai, 195 countries reached, by...

05.10.2026 20

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André Corrêa do Lago And Bruce Douglas

The Case Against Wearing Headphones in Public

I keep losing my wireless headphones. When I do have them with me, they’re often out of battery. So one day earlier this summer, I decided to ditch...

05.10.2026 20

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Meehika Barua

We Must Fight Health Misinformation With Empathy

In November 2008, I was eight months pregnant, watching the election returns roll in. Somehow, I’d found a way to make myself even more...

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Megan L. Ranney