The Present

Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.

Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.

A study out of Finland shows us that sex is sex and robots are robots, and the overlap is confusing.

Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.

Drug use and arrests are rising overall, but those changes vary depending on the state.

The controversial scientist He Jiankui is currently missing after causing major controversy in late November.

A new study warns of millions of “lost Einsteins.”

It’s hard to get off of the couch after a few eggnogs, let alone destroy public property.

It was “one of the most complex and intricate endeavors” SpaceX has ever undertaken.

Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.”

Back with another one of those block(chain)-rockin’ reads.

Why this $600 million business isn’t about money.

Populism: The “overnight” problem 40 years in the making

The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.

Opinion ruined journalism and Facebook killed truth—but there’s a way to make it right.

It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.

Should all ideas see daylight?

Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.

America treats the world like a board game. That’s a problem.

The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.

The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.

All of eXp Realty’s 1,500 employees work remotely on a virtual island complete with meeting rooms, a soccer field and speedboats.

Silent, carbon-free propulsion with no moving parts.

Research shows that employers are working to find more talent in the blockchain space, and they’re willing to pay higher rates for it.

Being raised indoors might be the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world.

The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.

Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would “blacklist” information that officials don’t like.

Mercantilism, the oldest thing in economics, is back in a big way.