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Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 vowed to do something about it.
A scholar of political deception says there is something especially deceitful about George Santos, and his success getting elected demonstrates mastery of something more than just pathological lying.
Native American families have endured generations of systematic child removal, but the grief, loss and trauma that birth mothers still experience have been largely overlooked.
This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, adopted and popularized the garment.
Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
A centuries-old experiment shows the differences between classical and modern physics. Physicists use thought experiments like this to think about how objects move both on Earth and in the stars.
Inclusive postsecondary education programs help students with intellectual disabilities make friends and become independent adults.
Two-thirds of new HIV infections are among gay and bisexual men. Although cases have decreased among white men, they have stagnated among communities of color.
Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
Without much scrutiny or fanfare, Edward Blum has led the attack against federal minority voter protection laws and the use of race in college admissions.
A newly discovered planet that should be too big to have formed around a tiny star is throwing into question what researchers know about planet formation.
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.
A central question remains unresolved in the draft treaty: Is plastic pollution basically a waste management problem, or can it be solved only with a cap on production?
The board is supposed to stop OpenAI from veering from its mission of building technology that benefits humanity.
For years, the biggest video game publishers have operated under the assumption that compelling stories and captivating characters don’t offer a good return on investment.
A veteran of UN climate talks lays out the top themes and their sticking points, including concerns about the host country’s oil interests.
A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
ChatGPT’s interface fueled the technology’s phenomenal rise to prominence. By being good at talking with us, it spoke to us.
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.