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Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.
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Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.
Even kids get that a real leader puts others’ interests first.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
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Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.
One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.
Human-challenge trials are not without risk, but they could speed up the process.
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Invented in 1902 by an American, the ‘Middle East’ is all over the place.
Picking up the thread of a conversation they started two decades ago in Jerusalem, with some help from Lenny Bruce, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and other influences along the way, host Jason Gots and Williams College professor Jeffrey Israel go deep on private grievances, public life, and where the two overlap.
The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.