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  • cowboyEnvironment

    Climate change’s role in the monster winter storm of January 2026: warmer oceans, more moisture and a dislocated ‘polar vortex’

    By Mathew Barlow, Judah Cohen, and others
  • anxietyFuture of Work

    AI anxiety is so widespread that veteran Microsoft researchers are having panic attacks because they’re making themselves obsolete

    By Patrick Barry and The Conversation
  • ICEPolitics

    Former Bush-appointed federal judge: Why the ICE memo allowing officers into your home without a warrant is unconstitutional

    By John E. Jones, III and The Conversation
  • maduroCybersecurity

    America hacked Venezuela’s grid to literally turn off the lights on Jan. 3. It could happen here, too

    By Saman Zonouz and The Conversation
  • swedenPersonal Finance

    Sweden abolished its wealth tax 20 years ago. Then it became a ‘paradise for the super-rich’

    By Miranda Sheild Johansson and The Conversation
  • AIAI

    ‘Visual elevator music’: Why generative AI, trained on centuries of human genius, produces intellectual Muzak

    By Ahmed Elgammal and The Conversation
  • greenlandEurope

    Denmark offered to trade Greenland to the U.S. in 1910—and America thought it was crazy

    By Steven Lamy and The Conversation
  • valentinoSuccess

    Valentino, one of the first Italian designers to succeed in France, defined the iconic female with bold reds and silhouettes—sometimes problematically

    By Jye Marshall and The Conversation
  • swiftArts & Entertainment

    Taylor Swift’s political polarization Rorschach Test: why young women love her and young men really don’t

    By Laurel Elder, Jeff Gulati, and others
  • trumpPolitics

    History says there’s a 90% chance that Trump’s party will lose seats in the midterm elections. It also says there’s a 100% chance

    By Robert A. Strong and The Conversation
  • condomAsia

    China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills

    By Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and The Conversation
  • raccoonNorth America

    For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store

    By Kelly Lambert and The Conversation
  • trumpNorth America

    How Trump became a death knell for the 85-year relationship between farmers and the federal government

    By Peter Simons and The Conversation
  • venezuelaPolitics

    The U.S. has absorbed 1 million Venezuelans over the past decade. That’s much more recent than most immigrants

    By Matt Brooks, Karin Brewster, and others
  • greenlandEurope

    Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite

    By Paul Bierman and The Conversation