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Why an 120-year-old warning about reading feels uncomfortably familiar
Journalists have been decrying the decline in reading for over 100 years and yet it persists.
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How Gen Z and India’s Cockroach Janata Party are successfully challenging Narendra Modi
The success of protest movements in India hinges on two main factors: the strategic importance of the movement’s voting base to the ruling BJP, and the degree to which the issue can be delegitimized.
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Africans migrate for jobs mostly within the continent: why regional skills partnerships are needed
Effective migration policy is not about imposing new patterns of movement, but about making existing ones safer, fairer, and more beneficial for all.
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How can governments tackle poverty when climate change, conflict and economic shocks hit all at once?
Crises that add up on top of each other have to be addressed in an integrated way.
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Don’t trust the name on the PAC
To manipulate voter perception, political action committees are adopting names that signal the opposite political goals from what those groups intend. And research shows the strategy is working.
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Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed won a combative Democratic nomination for US Senate – he’ll face new attacks this fall
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers this November.
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AI-designed viruses are a test of whether biosecurity can keep pace
From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks could be reduced.
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Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza roadmap – history tells us Israel may be planning to stay
Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, first proposed the annexation of the Gaza Strip in 1949.
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What it’s like to discover an ancient Egyptian tomb – and the race against time to preserve it
Due to its location at the foothills of the Theban mountain, the monuments in this necropolis are extremely vulnerable to flash flooding.
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Is hope back? Why it’s such an important part of Andy Burnham’s big plan
Generating hope as he tours the country this summer could be pay off for the prime minister come election time.
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Putting out wildfires: how peat restoration has reduced fire risk in Indonesia’s tropical forests
New research measures the effectiveness of peat restoration on wildfire risk.
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China is shaping the future of open-source technology – including AI
Nations that lead the development of open-source technology will have a strategic edge for decades to come.