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If we choose to take seriously the overwhelming consensus position of credible climate scientists, we have to accept that climate change represents a truly existential threat to the continuation of life on Earth as we...

Early in his preelection talkathon on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Donald Trump blithely suggested that even he couldn’t pinpoint just why exactly he got so much publicity during his first campaign. “I know why,” the podcast...

“We’re not, but we should be.” That was French economy minister Éric Lombard’s response to a question on March 1 asking if France is now in a war economy. In June 2022, French president Emmanuel...

Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump told Congress, “I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Not even a week later, his administration has arrested a permanent resident, summarily revoked his...

Last Sunday, a rally led by President Claudia Sheinbaum filled Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo. It was not, however, a political party event, a historical commemoration, or a state of the union address. It...

The “Big Five” publishing houses — Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Penguin Random House — wield enormous global power, controlling about 80 percent of the English-language trade publishing market. As Vox reported in...

Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno Exactly. Like all firms, Amazon is competing with other firms in various sectors across the economy over market share, but it is also locked in a competitive struggle with its...

After six years of suffering from infertility that doctors couldn’t explain, Michelle R. was ready to take more desperate measures. She had already given birth to two sons who were conceived naturally, but now, at...

In his address to Congress on Tuesday night, Donald Trump bragged that he’d “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Seemingly amazed by his accomplishment, he repeated, “It’s back.” In reality,...

Before the rise of streamers, influencers, and content creators, before QAnon and before Russiagate, there was Kony 2012. In March of that year, a thirty-minute film about Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance...

The Russian attack on Ukraine has had major consequences thousands of miles from the battlefields. Since Russia launched its invasion in 2022, the state that contains around half of the total landmass above the Arctic...

“Waste, fraud, and abuse” is a phrase we’re going to hear frequently as the Trump administration slashes the administrative state. In light of that, we should be clear what the president and his allies really...