“If they don’t pay,” President Donald Trump warned of NATO allies, “I’m not going to defend them.” Currently, his official position is that the United States would reconsider its defense commitments if its allies fail to demonstrate resol...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flashing blue lights. Panic does not set in, however, b...
The deal was simple. She was a 23-year-old single mother of two children in Sweden during the early 1950s. Hindered by a battle with alcoholism, she struggled to care for her children. Now, she had fallen pregnant for a third time. She was too young ...
The deal was simple. She was a 23-year-old single mother of two children in Sweden during the early 1950s. Hindered by a battle with alcoholism, she struggled to care for her children. Now, she had fallen pregnant for a third time. She was too young ...
As the American Southwest struggles through a regional “megadrought”—the worst of its kind in 1,200 years—states continue to battle for nature’s most abundant, yet most precious, resource. Southwestern state governments are particularly con...
As the American Southwest struggles through a regional “megadrought”—the worst of its kind in 1,200 years—states continue to battle for nature’s most abundant, yet most precious, resource. Southwestern state governments are particularly con...
In 2019, Akqol became Kazakhstan’s first “smart city.” Today, an extensive network of high-resolution cameras tracks everything from pedestrians’ morning commute to traffic flow, energy consumption, and school attendance. Designed to bring ur...
In 2019, Akqol became Kazakhstan’s first “smart city.” Today, an extensive network of high-resolution cameras tracks everything from pedestrians’ morning commute to traffic flow, energy consumption, and school attendance. Designed to bring ur...
Within the muddy waters of the US healthcare system lies a persistent and ever-growing problem: Exorbitantly high drug prices. The cost of medications is on the rise, and over the past few years, 44 percent of Americans have chosen not to fill a pres...
Within the muddy waters of the US healthcare system lies a persistent and ever-growing problem: Exorbitantly high drug prices. The cost of medications is on the rise, and over the past few years, 44 percent of Americans have chosen not to fill a pres...
Just after Hamas attacked Israel a year ago on October 7, Shai Davidai stood on the campus green at Columbia University and read his “Open Letter to Every Parent in America.” In an appeal that has since garnered nearly a quarter of a million view...
Just after Hamas attacked Israel a year ago on October 7, Shai Davidai stood on the campus green at Columbia University and read his “Open Letter to Every Parent in America.” In an appeal that has since garnered nearly a quarter of a million view...
The death of Alexei Navalny on February 16, 2024 was equally shocking and unsurprising. Few expected Navalny’s confinement in an unusually strict Siberian penal colony to end happily, and his death spurred a dizzying set of tributes and memorials a...
The death of Alexei Navalny on February 16, 2024 was equally shocking and unsurprising. Few expected Navalny’s confinement in an unusually strict Siberian penal colony to end happily, and his death spurred a dizzying set of tributes and memorials a...
Exhausted by centuries of imperialism, 19th-century Slavic intellectuals proposed “Pan-Slavism”—or the unity of all Slavic peoples along shared cultural and political lines into a singular geopolitical bloc—as a defense against neighboring ag...
Exhausted by centuries of imperialism, 19th-century Slavic intellectuals proposed “Pan-Slavism”—or the unity of all Slavic peoples along shared cultural and political lines into a singular geopolitical bloc—as a defense against neighboring ag...
On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
When “Zooey,” a Chinese international student at the Berklee College of Music, put up posters on campus reading, “WE WANT FREEDOM—WE WANT FOOD ON OUR TABLES… STAND WITH CHINESE PEOPLE,” a fellow student and Chinese national, Xiaolei Wu, t...
When “Zooey,” a Chinese international student at the Berklee College of Music, put up posters on campus reading, “WE WANT FREEDOM—WE WANT FOOD ON OUR TABLES… STAND WITH CHINESE PEOPLE,” a fellow student and Chinese national, Xiaolei Wu, t...
Gloria Gilbert Stoga is the founder of Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), a Manhattan-based organization that partners puppies with incarcerated individuals. These individuals will train and raise the puppies to serve as bomb-sniffers, veteran servicers, and...
Gloria Gilbert Stoga is the founder of Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), a Manhattan-based organization that partners puppies with incarcerated individuals. These individuals will train and raise the puppies to serve as bomb-sniffers, veteran servicers, and...
Bruce Biewald is the Founder and Chief Executive Office of Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. For more than thirty years, Bruce has worked at the intersections of energy economics, climate policy, and electric industry regulation. His analysis has been p...
Bruce Biewald is the Founder and Chief Executive Office of Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. For more than thirty years, Bruce has worked at the intersections of energy economics, climate policy, and electric industry regulation. His analysis has been p...
Olaf Scholz, clad in a black coat, digs a shovel into the ground, loosens sand, and tosses it a few inches forward. Alongside Boris Pistorius, his defense minister, the German chancellor has just broken ground on a new Rheinmetall ammunition factory ...
Olaf Scholz, clad in a black coat, digs a shovel into the ground, loosens sand, and tosses it a few inches forward. Alongside Boris Pistorius, his defense minister, the German chancellor has just broken ground on a new Rheinmetall ammunition factory ...