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What if changing the world doesn't require a giant leap? Perhaps creating a more loving world begins with the smallest choices we make each day -- one baby step at a time.
You pick up your phone to check one quick notification, and forty minutes later you're rage-scrolling through political arguments, feeling vaguely terrible about your life, your...
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The most consequential economic force of the next fifty years is not artificial intelligence, climate change, or geopolitical rivalry. It is something far quieter and far more...
On August 19, the U.S. Treasury quietly announced it would at least double the size of certain debt buyback operations, and bond markets moved immediately. Most Americans...
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“A mountain has given birth to a mouse. The ‘Russian affair’ falls to pieces before our eyes.”
Smart speakers equipped with digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are now the fastest-growing consumer technology since the smartphone.
Cenk Uygur speaks with Ieva Jusionyte about the injuries and illnesses encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border on The Young Turks.
President Trump promised to protect healthcare for people with pre-existing conditions, but his administration is now fighting to throw out the entire Affordable Care Act. Ali Velshi is joined by Kentucky
Not everyone cheered for the school children striking against climate change. In the US, democratic senator Dianne Feinstein accused them of “my way or the highway” thinking.
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Democrats demand to see Robert Mueller’s full report, and President Trump and Fox News look to punish those who pushed the collusion narrative.
Coral reefs may not be able to survive another human decade because of the environmental stress we have placed on them, says author David Wallace-Wells. He posits that without meaningful changes to
"On 15 March, our history changed forever. Now, our laws will, too," said New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient. The way to stop climate change might be buried in 300 square feet of earth in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, amid kale and potatoes.
As I scuba dive in Oslob Bay off Cebu Island in the Philippines, I see a tiny shadow dart over the surface of the spherical coral block – a minute fish, a goby of the genus Eviota, among the smallest vertebrates in existence, only about a centimetre long and less than 1/10th of a gramme light.
Donald Trump has perfected the art of telling a fake story about America. The only way to counter that is to tell the real story of America.
Natural disasters have filled our news in recent weeks. They wreak havoc in poor and vulnerable communities and cost billions in recovery and aid funding.
The ancient understanding of the universe was as a unified whole. Parmenides described the universe as a single, unified block of being. Then Plato split apart this unity with his ontological distinction between Heaven and Earth. Descartes’s mind-body dualism further removed humanity from nature by excluding consciousness from the natural world.
New research shows how a new kind of genetically engineered pesticide moves through and degrades in the soil.
The overabundance of fast fashion—readily available, inexpensively made clothing—has created an environmental and social justice crisis, the authors of a new paper argue.
Exposure to glyphosate—the world’s most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weed killer Roundup—increases the risk of some cancers by more than 40 percent, according to new research.
What can we do about looming threats to our privacy online and the theft of important personal information? Ari Trachtenberg has some ideas.
Researchers have previously linked air pollution exposure—particularly traffic-related air pollution—to a higher risk of autism, but new research may have an answer for how that relationship works.
Due to food shortages related to climate change, the Earth may experience a net increase of 529,000 adult deaths by 2050, according to a new review article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
I believe there is. When we speak of activism, we usually think of organized activities. Yet beyond that, we all have opportunities to act in ways that reflect our desire for social justice and peace. Whether or not we’re “official” activists, we’re always taking action, all the time. Every day, we’re making choices that will impact not only our own future but also that of others.
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