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In A War of Ideas, Censorship Is A Lousy One
By Jacob Mchangama
Stories of Afghan Women Around the World
By Edward Felsenthal
Inside the Growing Movement to Do More Good
By Naina Bajekal/Oxford, U.K.
“War Is Betrayal.” Coming to Terms With America's Disastrous Departure from Afghanistan
By Phil Klay
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Ideas
Israel-Gaza Truce May Not Last for Long
All the conditions that sparked the latest showdown remain in place, not least the crippling 15-year-long Israeli-led blockade.
By Ian Bremmer
August 9, 2022
Why I Stayed in a Miserable Marriage
"What kind of confident, independent woman was petrified of being single?"
By Nona Willis Aronowitz
August 9, 2022
With Innovation, We Can Keep Reducing the Toll of COVID-19
The current levels of illness, deaths, and long COVID-19 warrant more aggressive action.
By Edward Nirenberg , Gavin Yamey and Ilan Schwartz
August 9, 2022
Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him
Elon Musk is a singular visionary driving humanity toward a better future—or at least that’s what he and his admirers want us to believe. For the past two decades, supporters and news outlets have praised...
By Paris Marx
August 8, 2022
Progress Is Not A Given. It is Won
None of us can be erased if we refuse it. The idea of love, justice, and freedom do not belong to the powerful alone.
By Danté Stewart
August 5, 2022
This Is the Phase of the Pandemic Where Life Returns To Normal
At the supermarket, work, schools, restaurants, sports events, and airports we are witnessing a remarkable change. Masks are rarely seen. People are hugging, crowding, traveling. The latest Google COVID Community Mobility Report shows that most...
By Steven Phillips
August 3, 2022
The Miscalculations and Missed Opportunities that Led Putin to War in Ukraine
When Bill Clinton telephoned Vladimir Putin on New Year's Day, 2000, to congratulate him on his appointment as acting President, Putin told him: "There are certain issues on which we do not agree. However, I...
By Philip Short
August 3, 2022
There Are No Benefits to a Pelosi Visit to Taiwan
The U.S. House Speaker's expected trip to Taiwan is no more than costly virtue signaling.
By Daniel DePetris
August 2, 2022
Critical Race Theory’s Merchants of Doubt
What is more divisive than outlawing basic descriptive facts about American history?
By Victor Ray
August 1, 2022
Out of the Wreckage of Ukraine, the E.U. Is Finally Becoming a Union
The Ukraine invasion is showing that Europe will come together as a geopolitical union or not come together at all
By Bruno Maçães
August 1, 2022
What Happens When Kids Learn That Racism Can't Be Overcome
When kids learn that prejudice is permanent it reinforces racial divides. There's a better approach
By Evan Apfelbaum and Kristin Pauker
July 30, 2022
It's Hot Rage Summer. That Means It's Time for Activism
If it feels like all of America’s problems are happening all at once, over and over, it’s because they are.
By W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
July 29, 2022
What My Friend Ivana Trump Was Really Like
Ivana Trump was clearly not going to tell you what you wanted to hear. She was going to tell you what she thought, writes designer Dennis Basso.
By Dennis Basso
July 28, 2022
Amazon's Dangerous Ambition to Dominate Healthcare
Amazon's efforts to buy One Medical and expand further into healthcare must be stopped to protect patients' privacy
By Roger McNamee and Johnny Ryan
July 28, 2022
Why Christian Nationalism Is So Dangerous
Its prevalence as an ideology makes it the greatest threat to democracy in America today
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
July 28, 2022
An Alabama Clinic Reinvents Itself for a Post-
Roe
World
On the morning the Supreme Court announced that it had overturned Roe v. Wade, we had 21 patients in our lobby waiting to have an abortion. We cried as we were forced to turn them...
By Robin Marty
July 28, 2022
Baz Luhrmann Pays Tribute to Shonka Dukureh
Shonka Dukureh was authentically spiritual. Her inner life was large and you could see it through her actions and hear it in her voice. She played the role of Big Mama Thornton in my recent...
By Baz Luhrmann
July 27, 2022
America Is All Too Happy to Let People Die
Last week, we were told the President of the United States has COVID-19, but it wasn’t a big deal, as White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the media: "We knew this was going to...
By Gregg Gonsalves
July 27, 2022
The Sikh Idea of Seva Is an Antidote to Our Current Malaise
I remember how dishonest I felt in high school volunteering at a soup kitchen, just so I could mention it in my college applications. Decades later, the memory still gnaws at me. All of us...
By Simran Jeet Singh
July 26, 2022
The Reversal of
Roe
Sealed My Decision to Leave Texas
In the grocery store, in H-E-B, a strange, angry paranoia overtook me. Suddenly, I couldn’t look at any of the faces that passed me without my heart clenching. The produce blurred fluorescent around me, the...
By Sarah Rose Etter
July 26, 2022
Column: The Best Way to Slow the Spread of Monkeypox
On July 23rd, World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). It was a contentious decision, with WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus making the final call and overruling...
By Céline R. Gounder
July 25, 2022
We Can't Fix Inflation Without Saving Ukraine
If President Biden really wanted to escape his political morass he might consider saving Ukraine. His approval ratings—31%—are worse even than former President Trump’s. Americans are unhappy about the worst inflation in forty years. At...
By Suriya Jayanti
July 25, 2022
What Italy's Political Chaos Means for Europe
Italy is now barreling toward an uncertain political future. Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank chief who saved the Eurozone almost exactly a decade ago by pledging publicly to do “whatever it...
By Ian Bremmer
July 23, 2022
I'm a Student in Texas. My Teachers and I Shouldn't Be Responsible for Stopping a Mass Shooting
On May 24, 19 students and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas—the deadliest mass shooting in our state’s history. I remember staring at my phone as the gut-wrenching headlines...
By Zoe Yu
July 23, 2022
Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us
It keeps happening. Every summer, unprecedented heat surges through cities across the United States—in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; and in Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Last week, a heat wave...
By Eric Dean Wilson
July 22, 2022
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Not so long ago, Atlantic salmon was an abundant wild species. Born in the rivers of northeastern United States and Canada, after a couple years in freshwater they embarked on an epic migration, navigating 2,000...
By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
July 21, 2022
Carbon Credits Could Help Fight Climate Change—If We Use Them Right
Differentiating carbon credits based on their outcomes—reducing emissions, protecting carbon sinks, and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—can steer carbon-market money in the right direction
By Gabrielle Walker and Bruno Giussani
July 20, 2022
The Increasing Death Toll in the U.S. From Extreme Heat
Last summer, in the Pacific Northwest, record temperatures melted power cables and buckled roads. Seattle reached a record high of 108 degrees and millions of area residents struggled under the weight of unprecedented heat. Just...
By Sameed Khatana
July 20, 2022
Why You'll Need to Get COVID-19 Boosters Again and Again
Several highly effective vaccines were developed at an unprecedented speed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. During the phase 3 clinical trials, mRNA vaccines had vaccine efficacy of 94-95% in preventing symptomatic infections. After the rollout,...
By Akiko Iwasaki and Albert Ko
July 19, 2022
What I See Flying Over the World's Cities
Airplanes or cities? As a pilot who flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to many of the world’s largest and best-known metropolises, it’s hard to say which I love more. Indeed, these passions are...
By Mark Vanhoenacker
July 18, 2022
The Metaverse Will Reshape Our Lives. Let's Make Sure It's for the Better
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports that in the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two...
By Matthew Ball
July 18, 2022
The Founding Fathers Were Very Interested in the Right to Privacy—for Men
Back in 1789, John Adams and others forming the new United States recognized a head-scratching potential issue with the yet-to-be-ratified First Amendment and other state constitutional provisions like it: If language promised broad press and...
By Amy Gajda
July 16, 2022
How 988 Will Transform America's Approach to Mental Health
America is about to take a big step toward better health care. Beginning on July 16th, anyone in America, anywhere in America, can dial just three digits–988–to get free, confidential, and immediate help for a...
By Seth Moulton and Zak Williams
July 15, 2022
Why Abe Will Lead Japan Even After Death
Shinzo Abe built a durable policy legacy that not only survived his government but could also survive the man himself, writes Tobias Harris.
By Tobias Harris
July 14, 2022
Local Doctors Are Now the Frontline for COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve as the virus mutates to more contagious forms. Despite the new wave and continuing federal effort to address COVID-19, the pandemic response is shifting to local levels. We also...
By Scott A. Rivkees
July 14, 2022
Gabby Giffords: The Big Lesson from Our Small Progress on Guns
I often get asked about what could have been. If I hadn’t met with constituents at a Congress on Your Corner event on Jan. 8, 2011. If I hadn’t been shot in the head, leading to...
By Gabrielle Giffords
July 14, 2022
The Politicization of Fetal Viability
The fall of Roe v. Wade on June 24 marked the start of a strange era to be a Maternal-Fetal Medicine physician. By definition, we take care of anyone with a high-risk pregnancy, which can...
By Adam Lewkowitz and Nina Ayala
July 14, 2022
Raising Kids When the World Is Ending
People always think the world is ending and worry about bringing children into it. I did, but it’s now a fait accompli. My son is in the next room, watching a cartoon about dinosaurs with...
By Teddy Wayne
July 13, 2022
After Roe, Families Need Universal Basic Income More Than Ever
When I was in my third year of college, I had an abortion. I was several months into a relationship with the man who would later become my husband. During one of the most important...
By Stacey Rutland
July 13, 2022
Biden Should Push to End the War in Yemen
Riyadh increasingly sees the war in Yemen as a quagmire and is keen to extricate itself from the conflict
By Raiman Al-Hamdani
July 11, 2022
Remembering Shinzo Abe
As a Japanese musician who spends much of his time in Los Angeles, I hear news of guns all the time. I never thought I’d hear this kind of news in Japan. But the shocking...
By Yoshiki
July 11, 2022
The Legacy of Shinzo Abe
On July 8, the world learned that Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, had been murdered during a public appearance in the Japanese city of Nara. Though Abe had no current formal role in Japan’s...
By Ian Bremmer
July 8, 2022
I'm a Doctor Who Cares for Newborns. I’m Nervous After the End of
Roe
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, I feel an ominous cloud of governmental reach looming over my work as a neonatologist. Supporting families whose fetuses and babies have severe congenital...
By Rachel Fleishman
July 8, 2022
What a 4-Year-Old Saw at the Highland Park Mass Shooting
At school on Friday, July 1, 4 1/2-year-old Liora drew four white crayon figures on black paper, smiling beneath a neon firework display. This was a picture of her family—Liora, her mother, her father, and...
By Julia Fine
July 7, 2022
I Refuse to Give Up Hope After
Roe
Lily Tomlin famously quipped, “No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.” I was reminded of this quote when I saw how those Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices lied during their confirmation...
By Loretta Ross
July 6, 2022
Bulldozers Razed My Home: SOS From an Indian Muslim
Afreen Fatima, a Muslim student activist who's paying the price for being vocal against the Indian government, has a message for the world
By Afreen Fatima
July 5, 2022
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