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Drones are a powerful tool to expose animal cruelty. A Trump administration rule could stop them.
We keep coming back to this one strategy. Renters deserve better.
The road safety revolution began when we stopped treating crashes as inevitable. Now, we have to finish the job.
A major housing project in Nevada used to be a fairway. Other states should take a swing.
A new — surprisingly peaceful — way to think about information and knowledge.
Abundant, affordable, and...fun? Here’s how to get there.
You can outgrow a belief without outgrowing the people who gave it to you.
Americans today are dramatically less likely to die of heart disease than they were just a few generations ago.
A disturbing new investigation reveals how easy it is for farms to subvert organic rules — and hide animal cruelty.
America’s 250th birthday feels bleak. The numbers tell a different story.
You were told you’d change the world. But there’s a better way to think about your potential.
A growing form of donation is expanding the organ supply in the US — and testing how medicine protects dying patients.
Climate adaptation isn’t surrender. It’s survival.
But politics could derail the one thing to unlock it.
Under Trump, the global fight against HIV is running on fumes.
Skydiving or watching the grass grow? Psychologists and Buddhists explain how we can stretch our time.
Congress’s new housing law won’t fix your rent. It still matters.
America is having a soccer awakening. Can it have a transit one too?
America’s biofuels policy is helping destroy the world’s rainforests.
My extreme self-sacrifice is making me resent my friends who fly all the time.
Today’s teens are much safer than 1990s teens. Why doesn’t anyone talk about it?
A building almost collapsed in Manhattan. The backstory is surprisingly hopeful.
AI could create a rare chance to remake the safety net. Washington can’t waste time.
Your leather purse might put out as much carbon as 35 hamburgers. But the alternative doesn’t have to be junky pleather!
I asked philosophy and an environmental scientist — here’s what they say.
What if your real power to influence is actually…offline?
The US death rate just hit a record low, and there’s reason to hope the trend will continue.
New analysis suggests other factors may explain the harms blamed on “ultra-processing.”
As heat waves strain the power grid, passive cooling can help homes stay safer when the air goes out.
Touchscreens made life frictionless. They also flattened our relationship with the physical world.
It turns out no one likes seeing pigs locked in tiny cages.
Air conditioning is not a moral failure.
The ultra-wealthy used to build libraries and public parks. Those days are over.
When an animal goes viral, there’s almost always a dark side to the story.
The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.
AI companies say we have a choice. They already made theirs.
The internet once enabled our culture of giving. Now it just makes us angry.
Why a college degree is still worth it, even in 2026.
“Setting boundaries” is broken — but there’s a different way to think about caring for yourself and others.
Scientists are trying to make mosquitoes less terrible — but not to eradicate them.