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EnvironmentA paleoclimate scientist explains why he cringes at the 100,000-year heat—and how far back in prehistory it was really this hot
By Darrell Kaufman and The ConversationJuly 23, 2023

By Anna Nagurney and The ConversationJuly 22, 2023

SuccessHow Tony Bennett survived a near fatal drug overdose to create an 80-year career that knitted together the old and new Americas
By Jose Valentino Ruiz and The ConversationJuly 22, 2023

SuccessHow Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston created the entertainment ecosystem that Netflix destroyed, from a scholar of streaming
By David Arditi and The ConversationJuly 19, 2023

HealthThe $80 billion fitness industry relies on the myth that it helps you lose weight. Scientists are increasingly skeptical
By Donald M. Lamkin and The ConversationJuly 18, 2023

LifestyleBarbie used to be everything wrong with patriarchal beauty ideals, feminist professor says. Now she’s closer to ‘queer camp’
By Carol Hay and The ConversationJuly 17, 2023

MindThe ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is big business, but a religion scholar says humans—and animals—have been ecstatically tripping for thousands of years
By Gary Laderman and The ConversationJuly 17, 2023

PoliticsPrigozhin’s Wagner hasn’t just undermined Putinism—it’s bringing ‘unprecedented’ lawlessness to Russia, says lawyer with over a decade of experience in the country
By Maxim Krupskiy and The ConversationJuly 17, 2023

EuropeNATO is ‘certainly conducting its business more like the way it did during the Cold War,’ says professor at U.S. Army War College
By John Deni and The ConversationJuly 15, 2023

HealthSolving the country’s loneliness crisis would make Americans healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs
By Clay Marsh and The ConversationJuly 15, 2023

SuccessHarvard and other wealthy schools’ legacy admissions policies draw support from people who want to keep a ‘racial hierarchy,’ research shows
By Angelica S. Gutierrez and The ConversationJuly 13, 2023

PoliticsA former Clinton and Obama diplomat pulls back the curtain on what really happens during NATO summits
By Tara Sonenshine and The ConversationJuly 11, 2023

FinanceWealthy suburbs are crushing housing market supply and choking off affordability, say researchers who looked at nationwide data
By Paul G. Lewis, Nicholas J. Marantz and The ConversationJuly 10, 2023
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