The Present

Trump said USMCA is “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made by far.”

Millennials would rather pay off their student debt than spend money getting hitched.

The most valuable college majors will prepare students for a world right out a science fiction novel.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses how the megarich can help millions of children by donating 1 percent of their wealth.

With the death of Markeis McGlockton, the debate over stand your ground laws has reignited. Proponents believe they make us safe, while opponents claim they encourage vigilantism. While a consensus may be inconclusive, studies suggest such laws aren’t as effective as their drafters intended.

Millennials are killing everything great about our society including…divorce?

“This country is being ripped apart here,” Flake told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Twenty years ago, Nintendo asked America to try to catch ’em all. We still haven’t (legitimately) captured a Mew.

Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter.

Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, one day before the Senate is set to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The report outlines some bleak numbers for drivers who work for ride-hailing apps like Lyft and Uber, though those companies don’t quite agree with the researchers’ methodology.

It’s not so rare as many think.

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Handing out tickets might be distracting police departments from working on more serious crimes.

Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

The counties in question failed to provide voting and elections information online in both Spanish and English.

Ban Ki-moon recently criticized the state of the U.S. healthcare system as part of his work with The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.

Explore a legendary philosopher’s take on how society fails to prepare us for education and progress.

Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?

How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.

The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.

Transformation of big companies is really important if we want to create a system that is fairer, more sustainable and less unequal.

U.S. Supreme Court justices receive lifetime appointments to the bench, but many wonder if indefinite terms do more harm to our legal system than good.

Meritocracy doesn’t work when some people benefit from the system disproportionately.

American farmers are expected to traverse a rocky financial road in the coming months.

Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.

You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?

Ready your Schrödinger’s Cat Jokes.

Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union created secret cities to house the scientists working in their nuclear weapons programs. Both nations went about this in very different ways and with very different, sometimes disastrous, results.

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