Trump is breaking apart a scientific crown jewel
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, on December 17, 2025. | RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post...
Author : Shawn Bernier
The low, low cost of ending extreme poverty
It would cost just $318 billion per year — roughly 0.3 percent of global GDP — to pull hundreds...
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...
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...
Everything is a mockumentary now, thanks to Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap would influence comedy for years to come. | Alberto E. Rodriguez/FilmMagic...
Is ISIS back?
Floral tributes and candles are placed at at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025, in Sydney,...
Republican women in Congress are tired of Mike Johnson
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) takes a question from a reporter at the US Capitol Building on December 3,...
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...
Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doing pull-ups at DCA airport is not exactly the kind of air travel improvement travelers...
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....