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  • 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
  • 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