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There’s a saying that comedy is tragedy plus time. Perhaps that’s why some of our biggest problems feel easiest to manage with a dose of humor....
US Congresswoman Lucy McBath has made it her mission to seek bipartisan solutions for gun safety, leading the way in sponsoring so-called “red flag” laws that...
Using paychecks, perks and carefully worded mission statements plastered on posters, companies are on a never-ending quest to find what drives morale at work. An underappreciated...
When technologist Luis von Ahn was building the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, he faced a big problem: Could an app designed to teach you something ever...
Rice is the world’s largest food source — and it’s also a massive emitter of methane gas, a key contributor to climate change. Fifth-generation rice farmer...
Every day, people around the world spend 16 billion hours on unpaid care work — cooking for families, caring for children and older relatives and other...
How do we defend people’s freedom and dignity against authoritarianism, when the “law of war” doesn’t seem to apply anymore? In the face of the Russian...
Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn’t mean it’s getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and...
Writer Annie Rauwerda makes a habit of getting lost among the seemingly endless digital archives of Wikipedia, discovering fake towns, promiscuous tortoises, 19th-century fangirls and so...
In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment — but in the short term, it can devastate a...
