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Europe's Youngest Democracies Are in Turmoil at the Worst Possible Time
By Ian Bremmer
Delta Variant Is Forcing New Zealand To Shift Strategies
By Siouxsie Wiles
Biden's IRS Bank Reporting Proposal Will Foster Tax Fairness
By Charles O. Rossotti
Why William Shatner's History-Making Spaceflight Is Something to Celebrate
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How COVID-19 Opened the Door to a New Era in Psychedelic Medicine
Within the next few years, we could see psychedelic therapies prescribed for refractory depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or used in palliative care among those facing a life-limiting illness. But first we need to more deeply understand the benefits of psychedelic treatments. Right now, we are in the perfect storm to accelerate continued study—and health care workers are on the front lines.
By Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider
October 13, 2021
Lessons From the 'Empresses' of Ancient Rome
Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can still learn from the individual stories of those ancient women
By Mary Beard
October 12, 2021
The Seven Secrets of Indra Nooyi’s Success
The former PepsiCo CEO shares details from her life and career in her book My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future.
By S. Mitra Kalita
October 12, 2021
On Loving Someone Who Battles Inner Demons
For families and loved ones of those who live with the most serious mental health issues.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
October 10, 2021
What a Tattered Pillow Taught Me About Grieving
While working from the kitchen the other day, I saw a glimmer of bronze flit by so quick, if I didn’t already know what it was, I would have second-guessed seeing anything real at all....
By Lauren DePino
October 9, 2021
Biden's Refusal to Back Trump's Executive Privilege Claim Is the Right Call
An executive-privilege controversy that has been brewing boiled over on Oct. 8, when President Joe Biden said that he will waive the privilege and direct the National Archives to produce to congressional investigators records pertaining...
By Chuck Rosenberg
October 8, 2021
'It Is a Battle for Facts.' What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen
If Maria Ressa long has been known to people who follow the news, she has become absolutely essential to anyone grappling with why the news has gotten harder and harder to follow. Born in Manila...
By Karl Vick
October 8, 2021
The Invisible Tragedy Facing Refugees Like Me
In August the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, leading to hundreds of thousands of Afghans being forced from their homes by violence. These Afghans join the millions displaced worldwide in this year alone, and they...
By Mondiant Dogon
October 8, 2021
Facebook Will Not Fix Itself
Five years ago, I embarked on a mission to help Facebook change its culture, business model and algorithms. I had been involved with the company in its early days as an adviser and investor. Since...
By Roger McNamee
October 7, 2021
We Don’t Have to Be Superhuman: A Big Lesson From Little League
Here’s a portrait of a miracle: My very small 10-year-old Fiona stands at first base. Bright red, plastic orthotics poke out from the tops of her sparkly silver sneakers. She’s laughing. She’s waiting for a...
By Heather Lanier
October 7, 2021
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Was Approved by the WHO
On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization recommended use of the first vaccine to fight malaria. The decision is momentous and highly anticipated for many reasons: among them is that this is the first vaccine...
By Raj Panjabi
October 7, 2021
The Storytelling Genius of Jane Goodall and Why Intellectual Arguments Don't Change Behavior
The legendary primatologist has spent decades persuading us to change the way we treat animals and the planet, and she does it one story at a time.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
October 6, 2021
Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did
In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write in the 510s that when “Odoacer, king...
By Edward J. Watts
October 6, 2021
What Americans Don’t Know About the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Hurts All of Us
After two years as a representative of OxyContin’s victims in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy, I’m finally breaking my silence. I served as a co-chair of the Unsecured Creditors Committee inside the case, appointed by the...
By Ryan Hampton
October 6, 2021
Charlize Theron and Darren Walker on How to End Global Vaccine Inequity
This month, for the first time in two years, the G20 will meet in Rome to discuss a global, multilateral agenda. The stakes could not be higher. Certainly, member states are feeling the COVID-19 pandemic’s...
By Charlize Theron
October 6, 2021
What Smallpox Teaches Us About Controlling Future Pandemics
President Thomas Jefferson in 1806 wrote a letter to English physician Edward Jenner. Ten years earlier, Jenner had intentionally infected a boy with cowpox, in order to protect him against the much more terrifying smallpox...
By Kyle Harper
October 5, 2021
What Capitalism’s Would-Be Reformers Can Learn From a Burger Joint Magnate
Just 5% of businesses in the U.S. are owned by Black entrepreneurs like Nicholas M. Perkins, even as Black people comprise 13% of the U.S. population.
By S. Mitra Kalita
October 5, 2021
How U.S. Sexual-Harassment Law Encourages a Culture of Victim Blaming
Melissa Nelson was 20 years old when she was hired to work as a dental assistant for James Knight. Nelson had worked in his Fort Dodge, Iowa, office for more than a decade before he...
By Deborah Tuerkheimer
October 5, 2021
What We Have In Common With Humans Of 23,000 Years Ago
For all of our 21st-century trappings, our human paths align across the millennia.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
October 4, 2021
Is India Headed for an Anti-Muslim Genocide?
To keep winning elections, India's ruling BJP needs to keep polarizing voters—and Muslims are paying a terrible price
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury
October 4, 2021
Limiting Energy Emissions Is Crucial to Avoid the Worst of Climate Change
Scientists tell us that if we want to have a livable planet in coming decades, then emissions need to come down to net zero by 2050. As around three-quarters of the emissions that cause climate...
By Fatih Birol
October 1, 2021
How the Tech Industry Can Help Strengthen Democracy
"The software industry should view democratic governments as their most important customers"
By Michael Seibel
October 1, 2021
Good Intentions Are Not Enough. We Must Reset for a Fairer Future
We need a reset. We know we have racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and additional forms of bias and discrimination built into our workplaces, our schools, our medical care and all our institutions. We know it...
By Ellen Pao
October 1, 2021
We Must Revolutionize Food Systems to Save Our Planet
Producing food through animals is inefficient, wasteful and dangerous'
By Miray Zaki
October 1, 2021
What History Teaches Us About Women Forced to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term
As the full implications of Texas’s severe abortion law come into view, experts on reproductive rights are justifiably concerned about a potential increase in unsafe abortions. And while the specter of coat hangers may seem...
By Kelly O’Connor McNees
September 30, 2021
I Left Poverty After Writing 'Maid.' But Poverty Never Left Me
I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn’t know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire...
By Stephanie Land
September 30, 2021
R. Kelly Has Finally Been Silenced. Let's Keep It That Way
In the summer of 2017, at a neighborhood Atlanta coffee house, the #MuteRKelly movement was born. There, I met Oronike Odeleye, the woman who would later become my partner-in-mute. She, too, was heartsick over the...
By Kenyette Tisha Barnes
September 29, 2021
To Build Back Better, Tax Ultra-Wealthy Families Like Ours
After a summer of speculation, the contours of the deal needed to pass President Joe Biden’s popular “Build Back Better” agenda are becoming clear. To win key votes, Congress will have to find fresh sources...
By Liesel Pritzker Simmons
September 29, 2021
The Unmaking of the White Christian Worldview
As I came of age in Woodville Heights Baptist Church, on the white working-class side of Jackson, Miss., I internalized a cycle of sin, confession and repentance as a daily part of my life. Though...
By Robert P. Jones
September 29, 2021
Angela Merkel's Legacy Is Saving and Strengthening Europe
A legacy worth celebrating
By Ian Bremmer
September 28, 2021
A Woman of Color Cannot Save Your Workplace Culture
Some managers view hiring as the solution to their 'diversity problem,' which is a problem they created by not hiring inclusively to begin with, writes S. Mitra Kalita
By S. Mitra Kalita
September 28, 2021
There's No End in Sight for COVID-19. What Do We Tell Our Kids Now?
Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have used the phrase when this is over quite so often when talking about the pandemic with my kids. It wasn’t that I thought everything would return to the status...
By Nicole Chung
September 28, 2021
What We Fear in the Wake of the Texas Abortion Law
On Sept. 1, Texas enacted an extreme law that effectively ended abortion care in the state. Since then, clinics in states on the western and northern borders have seen a dramatic increase in patient visits...
By Robin Marty
September 28, 2021
Why Jewish Women Rarely Get Cast in Jewish Roles
Kathryn Hahn's casting as Joan Rivers in an upcoming Showtime series is the latest in an ongoing trend that sees few Jewish women get opportunities to play an already scant number of Jewish female roles.
By Sarah Seltzer
September 24, 2021
How Biden's UN General Assembly Speech Lines Up with Reality
The agenda Biden laid out at the U.N. was plenty ambitious, from COVID-19 to climate change. Does he mean what he says?
By Ian Bremmer
September 24, 2021
Anne Lamott’s Advice Could Stop You From Drowning in Cynicism
And why her new book, 'Dusk Night Dawn,' is a roadmap for this angsty moment
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
September 23, 2021
Instagram Is Doing Grave Harm to Our Generation. We Need Help to Stop It
Although Destinee was just 13 when she created her first Instagram account in 2012, she was late to the world of social media. She remembers standing in her best friend's bathroom, posing in front of...
By Destinee Adams
September 21, 2021
The Loss of Trees Has Had Devastating Consequences. Here's How We Can Still Create a Sustainable Planet
Viewed from outer space, Earth is a remarkable, vibrant planet—blue waters, majestic mountains, vast areas of green forests. It's an inspiring, stunning display of all the perfect elements to support the billions of diverse life-forms...
By Jane Goodall
September 21, 2021
My Father Was a Vocal Critic of Nicaragua's President. Now He's a Political Prisoner
My father, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, turned 77 this month. Normally, my entire family would gather somewhere in the States to celebrate his birthday with a late-summer cookout, a sheet cake and ice cream. This year, though,...
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
September 21, 2021
I Can't Do My Job as a Pastor With Abortion Laws Like Texas' S.B. 8 in Place
As a Baptist pastor from a midsize Southern city in a conservative red state, I know firsthand who suffers when politicians attempt to limit the right of every person to determine whether, when and how...
By Lauren Jones Mayfield
September 20, 2021
Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie
Back from their summer recess, Senate Democrats announced last week that they have united behind the "Freedom to Vote" Act, a compromise bill that would expand and protect the right to vote in important ways....
By William J. Barber II
September 20, 2021
How Joe Biden Can End Gender-Based Violence
In March 2019, I sat in a hotel room in Houston waiting for a conversation that was nearly 28 years in the making. The apology that in December 2017 Joe Biden told a journalist he...
By Anita Hill
September 20, 2021
The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them
These artists take our worn stereotypes about femininity, religion, and war and push them out of context nudging us to see them differently.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
September 20, 2021
Melinda French Gates: Our Economy Is Powered by Caregivers. That’s Why It’s Time for National Paid Leave
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity,” a member of Congress told me earlier this summer. We were talking about the chance to pass a desperately needed, long overdue national paid family and medical leave law. After...
By Melinda French Gates
September 20, 2021
Why You Feel So Tired All the Time
A little over a month ago, I started feeling more fatigued than usual. Just about everything in my life—from getting out of bed to exercising to writing to coaching to reading—required a significant amount of...
By Brad Stulberg
September 20, 2021
Why Didn't We Leave Afghanistan Before Now? In a Word: Fear
The heart of the matter really comes down to terrorism and its domestic political implications
By Carter Malkasian
September 19, 2021
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