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For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime presented...

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Yesterday, America had one of its worst days of bird flu to date. For starters, the CDC confirmed the country’s...

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Elon Musk was born a South African, so he’s ineligible to serve as either president or vice president of the...

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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsLast month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The...

ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. MeixnerDay 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a beacon...

When she coined the term art monster in 2014, Jenny Offill didn’t anticipate how fervently readers would take to it....

It was a normal morning during the autumn olive harvest. On a hillside northeast of Ramallah, on November 8, a...