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By Azal Zahir at The Express Tribune: A meta-analysis published in “Environmental Science and Technology,” found that exposure to natural environments is associated with reduced levels of stress, anxiety, and
Can Europeans shore up their collective defense and security by creating an independent, strongly coordinated defense industrial policy in time to adapt to a possible Donald Trump victory this November?
Jacob Mchangama in Persuasion: 2024 is a pivotal year for the future of global democracy, as some two billion—about half the adult population of the globe—will have the chance to
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by Anandi Mishra at the Psyche: Ever since my husband (M) moved to Germany to pursue his master’s late in 2022, we’d been living apart on two continents. The summer
Simon Rosenberg has spent the past two years telling Democrats they need to calm down. His Biden-will-win prediction is his next big test. Adam Nagourney in The New York Times: Simon
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Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division of the Roman Empire into two parts. The Western Roman Empire would go on to
In the view of renowned US author and critic Jed Perl, Alexander Calder remains America’s greatest sculptor. Easel Contributing Editor Morgan Meis talked to Perl about his biography of Calder
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“We need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring.” Ethan Mollick at TIME: Conversations about the future of AI are too apocalyptic. Or rather, they focus
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Peter Gordon in the Asian Review of Books: How is a reviewer, faced with (yet another) excellent short-story collection, supposed to convey to readers a convincing rationale for “why this
An estimated $30 trillion in corporate revenues will arise from products that have not yet reached the market. Keeping your eye on where value comes from is still the name
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A recent podcast with the author of the book “Refugee”–it is centered on the 1971 events in South Asia, and the ordeals of the Urdu speaking community commonly referred to
The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben Rhodes sardonically dubbed the think tank community in Washington, D.C. “the Blob.” The name stuck,
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