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'We Cannot Rest in Our Fight.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Dr. Denis Mukwege About Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence
By Angelina Jolie
2021: The Year the Grift Kept Giving
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There's Only One Way to Stop the Emergence of Variants Like Omicron
There are still more questions about the Omicron variant than answers. While the mutations identified suggest it has the potential to be more resistant to vaccines, invade cells more efficiently and be more transmissible than...
By Seth Berkley
November 29, 2021
As Iran's Nuclear Talks Resume, the West Needs to Understand Who It's Dealing With
A systemic change is well under way in the Islamic Republic, whose consequences should alarm the U.S. and its allies
By Kasra Aarabi
November 29, 2021
How To Depolarize Society: Be NICE
The late British theatrical impresario Baron Delfont was fond of telling a story about a young man who drops by his office one day looking for a job. Delfont, who had the reputation for being...
By Kevin Dutton
November 24, 2021
I Tried Buying Only Used Holiday Gifts. It Changed How I Think About Shopping
Pre-owned or vintage gifts are often better for the environment, and won't run into the supply chain issues facing new goods made overseas.
By Alana Semuels
November 24, 2021
How to Talk to People You Don't Agree With at Thanksgiving
As Americans prepare to host Thanksgiving dinners and other holiday meals, much attention is paid to the food served, the table setting, and the guest list. But is anyone setting the table for a good...
By Caroline Mehl
November 24, 2021
The Mean-Girl Dynamics of
Selling Sunset
Don't Quite Work in Season 4
There is a reason certain reality TV show feuds remain etched in our minds, even as pop culture has moved on. From Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari in Laguna Beach to Lauren Conrad (again) and...
By Morgan Jerkins
November 24, 2021
The ‘First Thanksgiving’ Story Covers Up the All Too Real Violence in Early America
The 17th century is having a moment. In 2019, the world observed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. This year marks 400 years since English Pilgrims and Wampanoags...
By Peter C. Mancall
November 24, 2021
India's Farmers Force Modi to Retreat, For Now
The potential benefits of his climbdown may far outweigh the momentary humiliation
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury
November 24, 2021
6 Things to Know (About Yourself) to Have a Successful Black Friday
For many years, Americans have had a holiday right after Thanksgiving that prompted a lot of buying. It is called Christmas. But it was a whole month away, and allegedly predicated on some non-retail themed...
By Belinda Luscombe
November 23, 2021
The History of Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations
Presidential Thanksgiving proclamations are always a reflection of the office, the country and the stakes of the given cultural moment
By Denise Kiernan
November 23, 2021
Why We Should Stop Freaking Out About Inflation
For the first time in decades, we are in the midst of a bona-fide inflation scare. Recent numbers came in at 6.2%, the highest since 1990. With government spending in the trillions and economic activity...
By Zachary Karabell
November 23, 2021
Escaping Poverty Like I Did Shouldn't Be the Exception
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet.” —Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete. The rose...
By Michael D. Tubbs
November 22, 2021
What Vladimir Putin Is Up To in Ukraine
In recent weeks, Russia has advanced more than 100,000 soldiers to its border with Ukraine. The Ukrainian government, fearing an attack, has called on Europe and the U.S. for help. A Kremlin spokesperson says Russia...
By Ian Bremmer
November 22, 2021
6 Innovative Paths to Homeownership
A dozen Grade-A eggs will run you about $0.40 more than they did a year ago, and you'll have to fork over $0.66 more for a pound of ground beef. At the gas pump, a...
By Abby Vesoulis
November 22, 2021
The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Makes Us All Less Safe
Jurors make their decisions in isolation. The problem is that in some cases, their verdicts can have sweeping consequences. The case of Kyle Rittenhouse is one of those cases. A Wisconsin jury acquitted him of...
By Barbara McQuade
November 19, 2021
The Day I Passed for White
As a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully passed for white only once in my life. Which is not to say I haven’t passed unintentionally many times—especially as a young adult, away from home for...
By Kelly McWilliams
November 19, 2021
Climate Change Is Inevitable. Here's How We Must Adapt
Eighty years ago, the American government began the mammoth scientific undertaking of developing fully operational nuclear weapons. At its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people, and its total cost ran to $2 billion (equivalent...
By Parag Khanna
November 19, 2021
How a Manufactured Migrant Crisis Showed That Europe's Last Dictator Can Rattle the EU
Perhaps the greatest success the sclerotic dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko has racked up this week has been seeing a host of Western news reports refer to grim scenes at the Belarusian-Polish border as a “migration...
By Michael Weiss
November 18, 2021
Our Leaders Failed Us at COP26. To Succeed at COP27, They'll Need to Put Self-Interest Aside
“How late it was, how late.” Twenty-seven years ago, the Glaswegian author James Kelman stunned the literary world when his novel of that name won the prestigious Booker Prize. Although his raw depiction of poverty...
By Mary Robinson
November 18, 2021
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. We've Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades
Forty-three years ago, on November 18, 1978, 918 Americans died in a remote jungle in Guyana, South America. One was a U.S. Congressman, three were journalists and 914 were residents of the Peoples Temple agricultural...
By Leigh Fondakowski
November 17, 2021
Strategies to Get Through the Rest of the Year Without Burning Out
What a time to be managing a team. On a macro level, being a manager is a more complicated role than it used to be: Employees increasingly approach their bosses with more personal and professional...
By S. Mitra Kalita
November 16, 2021
Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Demands International Attention. Time Is Running Out
Bridging the gap between the government and Tigrayan rebels will require cajoling by those who hold leverage
By Aanu Adeoye
November 16, 2021
How Nelson Mandela Came to Work with F.W. de Klerk to End Apartheid
In 1991, two years after he became president of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk, who died at the age of 85, secretly met with Nelson Mandela at Tuynhus, the South African president’s residence in Cape...
By Richard Stengel
November 12, 2021
What the True Story of Buffalo Bill Reveals About the Myth of the Wild West
Buffalo Bill is onstage engaged in fierce battle. He and his scouts are fighting a ferocious group of Cheyenne warriors. The audience holds its breath as the terrifying Cheyenne appear to be gaining the upper...
By Ijeoma Olou
November 12, 2021
How Gratitude Can Help Combat Climate Change
Climate change is the defining issue of our era. World leaders have come together to align on global goals, companies are judged by their environmental impact, and millions of ordinary people have marched in the...
By Andrew Serazin
November 12, 2021
What Early Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Reveal About Kurt Vonnegut's Struggles
In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 anti-war masterpiece about a hapless American soldier who becomes “unstuck in time,” the author indicates that he wrote more than five thousand pages by 1965. But...
By Tom Roston
November 11, 2021
Eritrean Journalist Dawit Isaak Has Been Jailed For 20 Years
In 2001, the Eritrean government shut down the entire independent press. The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, a prolific writer and courageous journalist with Setit, Eritrea’s first independent newspaper, was arbitrarily detained, held incommunicado, and denied...
By Judith Abitan and Irwin Cotler
November 11, 2021
Gary Sinise: Here’s How You Can Honor Vets
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signed Presidential Proclamation 3071, calling on citizens to observe Thursday, Nov. 11, 1954 as Veterans Day. What had been Armistice Day since...
By Gary Sinise
November 11, 2021
This Veterans Day, Remember to Salute Our Afghan Allies Too
My phone vibrates with yet another plea for help. “Nasir” (not his real name), a former interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, writes to tell me the Taliban has arrested his children. The crime?...
By Matt Zeller
November 11, 2021
How Ice Cream Became My Own Personal Act of Resistance
In March 2020, before we knew anything—except that schools were closing and we should check every store for Clorox wipes—I texted my sisters a picture of my shopping cart: two pints of peanut butter ice...
By Taylor Harris
November 10, 2021
We Only Think We're Making Our Own Choices. It Matters How Options Are Framed
You might not know it, but when you gave your partner some choices for dinner after work this evening, you were a choice architect. You almost automatically thought about how may options to present, you...
By Eric J. Johnson
November 10, 2021
What the 1893 World's Fair Teaches Us About White Feminism Today
In November of 1890, a group of women called the Board of Lady Managers gathered in Chicago, a city that had been chosen as the site for the World’s Fair of 1893. The fairgrounds, an...
By Rafia Zakaria
November 9, 2021
The Work of Critical Race Theory Falls on Employers Now
For many companies, serving new and changing markets is a matter of survival that starts with internal cultural change.
By S. Mitra Kalita
November 9, 2021
America's Last King Was No Crazy Tyrant
I loved Hamilton: An American Musical for its foot-tapping tunes and witty libretto, but it’s no more an accurate portrayal of history than Shakespeare’s Richard III or Macbeth. For the cruel prancing camp sadist portrayed...
By Andrew Roberts
November 9, 2021
My Brother Is Unvaccinated Because Our System Is Ableist
A recent study showed that adults with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and other mental illnesses are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 and having more severe cases of the virus. Based on my brother’s...
By Amanda Calhoun
November 8, 2021
There Is No Way I Could Have Gone to an Office 4 Weeks After Having a Baby
I was 13 weeks pregnant with my first child when I first felt the sharp, tearing pain in my groin. I didn’t know it then, but my pubic symphysis—the tiny joint holding together the bones...
By Katie Gutierrez
November 5, 2021
I Traveled the World to Witness the End of Winter
For a century and a half, melting snow and ice have been the most recognizable visual evidence of climate change. You can see it in the Arctic Ocean, where the first ice-free summer in two...
By Porter Fox
November 5, 2021
Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial...
By Belinda Luscombe
November 5, 2021
How to Pass Voting Rights With Abolishing the Filibuster
The Senate just needs to pass a simple rule change.
By Kate Shaw
November 5, 2021
We Can Beat Climate Change If We Do One Thing Fast
Now, finally, much of the world has become convinced, first-hand, that global warming is not only real but heating up more rapidly than we expected, unleashing irreversible impacts. Many people feel despair and helplessness in...
By Saul Griffith
November 4, 2021
Watch: A Pet Turtle's Pursuit of Happiness in 'Snowy'
Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis decided to make a movie about Snowy the pet turtle after spending Thanksgiving with him one year. Their short documentary is both an investigation into animal happiness and...
November 4, 2021
Resources to Help Manage Climate Anxiety
Coping, caring, and healing is an essential part of climate work
By Katharine Wilkinson
November 3, 2021
There's Nothing Left to Debate on COVID-19 Vaccines for Kids
With emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine newly approved for children 5-11, many parents are asking the question—should we vaccinate our kids? To be fair, many parents may have already made up their...
By Jeff Vergales
November 3, 2021
The U.S. Risks Catastrophe if It Doesn't Clarify Its Taiwan Strategy
At a recent CNN town hall, President Biden strongly and directly promised to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, saying bluntly “Yes, we have a commitment to do that,” when asked about the situation. But...
By James Stavridis
November 3, 2021
My Son Knows Exactly How He'll Mark the Occasion of Getting His COVID-19 Vaccine
My son’s unruly mane is as old as the pandemic. Cascading to the middle of his back, each dark brown wave marks the seasons that have passed since COVID-19 took hold of the world. His...
By Vanessa Hua
November 3, 2021
How Nov. 2, 2010 Made the Rich So Much Richer
November 2, 2010, is a day that that has been mostly forgotten by history, but that should live in infamy. It was the day when America’s democratic institutions retreated to the sidelines of economic policymaking...
By Christopher Leonard
November 2, 2021
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