How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life
By Steven Johnson The New York Times Magazine The period from 1916 to 1920 marked the last point in which a major reversal in global life expectancy would be recorded. […]
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India is What Happens When Rich People do Nothing
By Vidya Krishnan The Atlantic This month, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, India’s capital and home to millions, tweeted that the city was facing an “acute shortage” of […]
Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]
Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
Balancing China at the United Nations
By Henrik B.L. Larsen War on the Rocks If the COVID-19 pandemic is to have any positive geopolitical impact whatsoever, it should be drawing full attention to China’s attempt to […]
Energy Deals are Creating a Powerful Alliance Between China and Russia
By Vanand Meliksetian Oil Price The Chinese economic growth miracle is disrupting the global balance of power. President Trump’s trade war with China was the latest manifestation of Washington’s effort […]
Arctic Science Cannot Afford a New Cold War
Editorial Nature Records are being broken in the Arctic, but not the kinds to celebrate. Last summer, Greenland lost more than twice as much ice as the yearly average since […]
How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online
By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]
How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
By Laura Sullivan NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash […]
It Can Happen Here
By Cass R. Sunstein The New York Review of Books Liberal democracy has enjoyed much better days. Vladimir Putin has entrenched authoritarian rule and is firmly in charge of a […]
