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To Win the Tech Race with China, Unleash the Venture Capitalists

By Tim Hwang and Tianyu Fang

How Cable News Upended Politics

By Kathryn Cramer Brownell / Made by History

The Century That Created Today's Media

By Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History

The Weaponization of Biden’s Age

By Mauro Guillén
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The Most Famous Historian of Rome on Why Men Are Obsessed

Mary Beard weighs in on the latest TikTok trend and why Romans would have loved social media.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Growing Danger of Dams

Deadly dam failures will become more common, and removing them helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By Jacques Leslie

Civil Rights' Roots in the Jim Crow South

Civil rights were vindicated in courts, but they were made by people pursuing their everyday lives, writes Dylan C. Penningroth.

By Dylan C. Penningroth

The Myths Holding Back Police Reform

A cop turned sociologist details the realities overlooked by advocates on both sides of the debate over policing.

By Neil Gross

How to Make Russia Pay to Rebuild Ukraine

$300 billion of Russian assets have been seized since the Ukraine invasion. That money should be put towards rebuilding Ukraine

By Laurence H. Tribe and Raymond P. Tolentino

What a Doctor Is Seeing In COVID Today

COVID-19 and how the body responds to it is changing thanks to vaccines and building immunity.

By Michael Daignault

What Yom Kippur Teaches Us About Ableism

'We’re all at risk in a world that treats our bodies as an obstacle to someone else’s bottom line,' writes Julia Watts Belser.

By Julia Watts Belser

Joan Didion’s Obsession With Snakes

Evelyn McDonnell explores how Joan Didion's upbringing helped her hunt snakes in human form.

By Evelyn McDonnell 

What It Will Take to Avoid a Tripledemic This Winter

RSV, the flu, and COVID-19 are racing towards us this winter, but we have the tools to fight back and focus on the most vulnerable.

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

Finding Love in the Shadow of War

From Nabokov to Arendt to Dietrich, a vivid new book captures the love affairs of the greatest creative forces of the 1930s.

By Florian Illies

Why We Can't Get Over the Roman Empire

A historian on how Roman Empire offers a distorted view of America.

By Tom Holland

How Mormonism Went Mainstream

Benjamin E. Park explores what the rise of Mormonism reveals about America.

By Benjamin E. Park

We Must Win the Race to Net Zero

The U.N.'s most recent progress assessment is unequivocal: The world is not on track.

By Catherine McKenna

A U.S.-Saudi Defense Pact Is a Terrible Idea

The Biden Administration wants a Saudi-Israel normalization deal but would pay a steep price for it.

By Daniel DePetris

The U.S. Keeps Failing Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh

The Biden Administration should change course and make clear that Azerbaijan's aggression will not be tolerated.

By Alex Galitsky and Gev Iskajyan

Big Tech Is Running National Security

Putting U.S. tech companies in charge of national security is a very risky bet.

By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
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