The Present

The US prison system continues to fail, so why does it still exist?

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

American universities used to be small centers of rote learning, but three big ideas turned them into intellectual powerhouses.

Counterintuitively, directly combating misinformation online can spread it further. A different approach is needed.

And is anyone protecting children’s data?

The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.

The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.

The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.

Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children

The more you see them, the better you get at spotting the signs.

Fifty years of research on children’s toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.

New research sheds light on the indoctrination process of radical extremist groups.

People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.

Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.

Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.

When we look at the night sky, we may see junk instead of stars.

The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?

“It’s not always about agreement, more often it’s about business.”

The retraction crisis has morphed into a citation crisis.

The public sphere should be open to conflict.

The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.

What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?

For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.

Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.

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Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

Whose responsibility is it to ensure that there is affordable access to employment?

The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.

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