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  • cobaltEnvironment

    The AI boom is built on the backs of the world’s poorest, most exploited people, UN researchers find

    By Abraham Nunbogu, Kaveh Madani, and others
  • trumpPolitics

    Iran has Trump caught on the same math that Ukraine is using against Putin: $1 million missiles, $20,000 drones

    By Aaron Brynildson and The Conversation
  • trumpPolitics

    Donald and Leo is the latest power-versus-pope showdown stretching back 1,000 years

    By Joëlle Rollo-Koster and The Conversation
  • straitEnergy

    Iran and the U.S. live in 2 different worlds, law of the sea expert says—and both of those are different from most maritime law

    By Elizabeth Mendenhall and The Conversation
  • iranEnergy

    A global food emergency: Why the closed Strait of Hormuz puts half the world’s calories at risk

    By Aya S. Chacar and The Conversation
  • erewhonEconomy

    Americans hate the economy so much, they’re buying $22 smoothies

    By Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Patrick Van Esch, and others
  • newtEnvironment

    Newt Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America

    By The Conversation and Christine Keiner
  • cancerHealth

    Cancer’s grim calculus for the young: their insurance status can determine how long they survive

    By Rhonda Winegar, Tara Martin, and others
  • artemisPolitics

    NASA is finally going back to the moon, with Artemis II. What took so long?

    By Emily A. Margolis and The Conversation
  • houthiEnergy

    The Strait of Hormuz crisis is drawing eyes to another point nearby: ‘the Gate of Tears’

    By Flavio Macau and The Conversation
  • chatCybersecurity

    What if I told you the ‘AI slop’ debate was over 100 years old? It used to be about ‘ghostwriting’

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson and The Conversation
  • wyleHealth

    ‘The Pitt’ shows an ER getting shut down by a cyberattack that is totally true to life

    By Jeffrey Tully, Christian Dameff, and others
  • 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