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America is richer than ever. Why is it so unhappy?

Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history.  We live in homes conditioned to our ideal...

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Eric Levitz

The low, low cost of ending extreme poverty

When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too...

yesterday 3

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Sara Herschander

The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem

Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and...

yesterday 2

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Sigal Samuel

Everything is a mockumentary now, thanks to Rob Reiner

Between the emerging details surrounding the gruesome deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, and the inflammatory remarks made in...

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Kyndall Cunningham

Is ISIS back?

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today described the deadly terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as being “...

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Joshua Keating

Trump’s war on democracy is failing

If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump’s attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters...

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Zack Beauchamp

Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient.

This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US...

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Alex Abad-Santos

How AI could create “a world without work”

When it comes to artificial intelligence, few fears loom larger than the idea of robots coming to take our jobs. But if you talk to the AI...

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Jonquilyn Hill

Climate change is rewriting polar bear DNA

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA...

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Helena-Horton

The 10 best books of 2025

It’s been a good year for books. I’ve been glutting myself on them for months: reissued forgotten classics with sentences so crisp you can hear...

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Constance Grady

Republican women in Congress are tired of Mike Johnson

Frustrations are mounting in the Republican conference despite the GOP controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House. There is a growing...

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Elias Isquith

The only number that really matters

In 1972, the King of Bhutan announced that “gross national happiness is more important than gross domestic product.” It was a charming sound bite...

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Brian-Albrecht

The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem

There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.” Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include bone-...

monday 6

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Pratik Pawar

The unexpected link between your diet and your anxiety

By May 2024, Ebony Dupas knew she had a problem. She had started to feel a mild anxiety about her sense of direction and purpose in life earlier...

monday 10

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Hannah Seo

The mass shooting on Australia’s Bondi Beach, briefly explained

Two gunmen opened fire on a celebration of the first day of Hanukkah at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 15 and injuring dozens more....

14.12.2025 6

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Cameron Peters

How do you know if you’re wasting your life?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism —...

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Sigal Samuel

When your AI boyfriend gets you better than your spouse

The AI revolution is breaching a new frontier: the human heart. For those seeking a partner who feels custom-built for their soul, ChatGPT has...

13.12.2025 8

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Peter.balonon-Rosen

We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.

America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. A Pew Research Center survey published in September found that 50 percent of...

13.12.2025 2

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Bryan Walsh

The global shadow economy behind Trump’s latest move on Venezuela

Following this week’s seizure of a sanctioned ship off the coast of Venezuela, the Trump administration says it will be targeting more oil tankers...

12.12.2025 4

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Joshua Keating