If poverty causes crime, why do some of America's poorest communities have some of its lowest crime rates? The Chinese immigrant experience demolishes a popular framework and points to something more complicated, more interesting, and more useful.
News & AnalysisFormer Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sits in ICC custody in The Hague, facing crimes against humanity charges for a drug war that killed thousands. How a local death squad became an international criminal case.
Systemic Failures True CrimeOil drops, wheat drops, shipping costs drop. So why is your grocery bill still climbing? The answer involves rockets, feathers, and a system that was never designed to work in reverse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisA vaccine does not just introduce a weakened pathogen and hope for the best. It triggers a precise molecular cascade, from pattern recognition receptors to germinal center reactions, that rewires your immune system to remember and destroy threats it has never truly faced.
Explainers Science & MedicineCRISPR has cured sickle cell disease and produced the first personalized gene therapy for an infant. But the gap between what gene editing can do today and what headlines promise remains enormous. Here is what actually works, what does not, and why.
Explainers Science & MedicineThe Trump administration sanctioned Palestinian human rights organizations for cooperating with the International Criminal Court. Then YouTube, Google, Mailchimp, and banks deleted their accounts, erasing hundreds of videos documenting alleged war crimes.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAfter their 2024 defeat, Democrats blamed racism, sexism, disinformation, and the voters themselves. What they did not do, with very few exceptions, was ask why a party that once championed the working class now loses majorities among Americans earning under $50,000 a year.
News & Analysis US Domestic PoliticsThe U.S. approved the sale of 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the largest AI hardware deal ever struck with the Middle East. Behind the numbers lies a geopolitical realignment that trades Chinese tech ties for American silicon and reshapes who gets to build frontier AI.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil is not just fuel. Between 10% and 20% of every barrel becomes the raw material for plastics, fertilizers, medicines, and thousands of other products. With Brent crude up 80% since the Hormuz crisis began, the price of modern life is being rewritten far beyond the gas pump.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisFrom "thoughts and prayers" to rage-tweeting to "protecting the children," humans have perfected the art of looking helpful without actually helping. Evolutionary biology and social psychology explain why.
News & Analysis Psychology & BehaviorYour phone finds your location in seconds, but the system behind it relies on atomic clocks accurate to a billionth of a second, satellites traveling at 14,000 km/h, and corrections rooted in Einstein's relativity. Here is how GPS actually works.
Explainers Physics & EngineeringTrump proposed the deepest cuts to American science in half a century. Congress blocked most of them. But 25,000 scientists are already gone, 7,800 grants lie in ruins, and the real damage may take a generation to undo.
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