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Freedom and democracy are great, but our understanding of what those things are has changed a lot since we came up with them.
After conducting a year-long investigation into a campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a United Nations panel found evidence that Myanmar security forces committed “the gravest crimes under international law.”
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We all love the art, but we often forget the difficulty of being an artist. Here are some of the most famous, greatest writers of all time who never could quite make a living doing it.
Thought experiment: What if you graft Israel's borders onto the San Francisco Bay Area?
It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a single-family home. A Ukrainian startup has cut that timeframe down to just 8 hours.
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A company specializing in A.I. medicine will tell you how long you’re likely to live.
Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?
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Geologists find that when the earth’s spin slows as it has recently, major earthquake activity follows.
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