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  • uberFuture of Work

    Seattle passed a law to pay gig workers more and it backfired for one reason: economics

    By Andrew Garin, Brian K. Kovak, and others
  • jonesEnergy

    Meet the Jones Act, the law that has made gas more expensive for Americans for decades

    By Christopher Niezrecki and The Conversation
  • barrelEnergy

    Plastics, fertilizers, clothing, medicines and electronics: $100-a-barrel oil has huge downstream consequences

    By André O. Hudson and The Conversation
  • trumpCommentary

    There’s one particular way the Iran War is different from all the others in American history

    By Charles Walldorf and The Conversation
  • straitMiddle East

    The Strait of Hormuz isn’t totally closed. Meet the ‘shadow fleet’

    By Charles Edward Gehrke and The Conversation
  • gatesNorth America

    Bill Gates was a top 3 philanthropist last year as the ultrawealthy gave away $22.4 billion — but he didn’t take the top spot

    By David Campbell, Hans Peter Schmitz, and others
  • trumpMiddle East

    How the Iran War is related to the real winner of the Iraq War 20 years ago

    By Farah N. Jan and The Conversation
  • trumpMiddle East

    Something’s different about America since the early 2000s and it has to do with drill, baby, drill

    By Amy Myers Jaffe and The Conversation
  • zuckBig Tech

    Big tech has defeated everything for 30 years, but for the first time faces something it can’t control: a jury

    By Carolina Rossini and The Conversation
  • heatEnvironment

    The last 3 years were the hottest ever recorded. Here’s why we may look back at them as some of the coolest we remember

    By Michael Wysession and The Conversation
  • educationAI

    We’re economists who designed a chatbot to help our students reason instead of cheat. Meet ‘Macro Buddy’

    By Saharnaz Babaei-Balderlou, Shishir Shakya, and others
  • hegsethMiddle East

    Pete Hegseth called it ‘quiet death’—the first time a U.S. sub fired a torpedo and hit an enemy ship since the 1940s

    By James Dwyer and The Conversation
  • addictionHealth

    GLP-1s cure hunger for a lot more than food, my study of 600,000 people suggests

    By Ziyad Al-Aly and The Conversation
  • mossadeghCommentary

    One key difference on America and Iran, then and now: the CIA had a plan for what would happen in 1953

    By Gregory F. Treverton and The Conversation
  • trumpMiddle East

    Top diplomat on Middle Eastern regime change as a losing game: ‘U.S. history in that area of the world is not good with this’

    By Donald Heflin and The Conversation