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  • 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
  • trumpMiddle East

    Former Trump security advisor sees no off-ramp this time around for Iran, Israel and America

    By Javed Ali and The Conversation
  • shapiroAI

    Why Pennsylvania sits at the center of the big data-center power problem

    By Shixiang (Woody) Zhu and The Conversation
  • baftaHealth

    The BAFTA Tourette racial slur controversy, explained, by a sociologist with Tourette’s who studies social stigma

    By Rena Zito and The Conversation
  • gen zAI

    We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say ‘likely’ but humans hear 65%

    By Mayank Kejriwal and The Conversation
  • epsteinLaw

    How Jeffrey Epstein exploited colleges’ ‘tremendous drive to acquire money’

    By Brian Herman and The Conversation
  • putinEurope

    Russia’s violation of NATO airspace surged 200% in 2025, a warning of what may be coming

    By Frederic Lemieux and The Conversation
  • jacksonArts & Entertainment

    Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him

    By Gibbs Knotts, Christopher A. Cooper, and others