Every day, the sun’s rays send 173,000 terawatts of energy to Earth, 10,000 times the amount used by all of humanity. Which is to say, the potential for solar energy is immense, and we’re nowhere near the limit. That’s why solar energy is such an appealing prospect, particularly as an alternative to the fossil fuels […] Read more ›
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the US’s largest and best-known labor unions, has declined to endorse a candidate for president, citing major political divides among its membership, as well as dissatisfaction with each major candidate’s stances on key union priorities. In a tight presidential race where the vast majority of labor unions have […] Read more ›
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Additional explosions, reportedly involving thousands of walkie-talkies, went off in Lebanon Wednesday, a day after hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria in an attack that apparently targeted members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party. Israel was reportedly behind both attacks, though it has not taken public credit. […] Read more ›
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Sometimes, panics are overblown. Sometimes, older generations are just freaking out about the youngs, as they have since time immemorial. That’s not the case, unfortunately, with kids’ learning right now, more than four years after the pandemic shuttered classrooms and disrupted the lives of millions of children. The effects were seen almost immediately, as students’ […] Read more ›
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One of the most memorable essays college admissions counselor Alexis White worked on with a student wasn’t about a harrowing personal challenge or a rewarding volunteering experience. “It started with the sentence ‘My hair arrives in a room before I do,’” says White, the founder and director of the consultancy firm Alexis College Expert. “It […] Read more ›
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It’s a common worst-case scenario for many students aspiring to college: you’ve worked diligently throughout high school to earn top grades and aced your standardized tests. All your studying and those extracurricular activities are finally paying off — you’ve been accepted to your dream school. The problem is, says John Tillman, president of the financial […] Read more ›
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It’s that time of year again: Summer is over, class is in session, and high school seniors are filled with dread. Yes, it’s college application season. The formula required to get into many colleges these days involves striking a delicate balance between highlighting personal and academic accomplishments, outlining future interests and aspirations, and painting a […] Read more ›
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Bill Gates helped launch a global health revolution at the turn of the 21st century, one in which multilateral humanitarian efforts arrested the AIDS crisis in Africa and began to make strides against longtime killers like tuberculosis and malaria. People in the Global South were living longer. A more equitable future appeared within our grasp. […] Read more ›
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Over the past two days, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been targeted with an attack as sophisticated and audacious as it is brutal, with the devices in their own pockets turned into deadly weapons. On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members and associates in Lebanon and Syria exploded, killing at […] Read more ›
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Ukraine’s military apparently launched a drone attack against a weapons depot in Russia’s Tver region Wednesday, causing a blast detectable from space. The large-scale attack occurred near the village of Toropets, about 240 miles west of Moscow, according to Russian military bloggers. According to Russian state media, the attack was so intense the town of […] Read more ›
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Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party, has been in conflict with Israel since its founding decades ago. The intensity of the hostilities has waxed and waned, hitting a relative low point before the war in Gaza broke out. The months since October 7, though, have brought a dangerous escalation in fighting […] Read more ›
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Rich Johnston, a father of two school-aged children in Atlanta, thought AOL Instant Messenger was bad enough. Johnston recently told me that “away messages screwed with people’s brains,” stressed them out. The self-identified elder millennial also loves the fire hose of information that is X, formerly Twitter, and yes, he knows that’s weird. “Now we’ve […] Read more ›
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced Tuesday that it would begin rolling out measures that restrict what kind of content young people can access, who they can talk to, and how much time they spend on special media. The new measures will begin with an Instagram rollout that began September 17 […] Read more ›
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Now that inflation has cooled, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it is cutting interest rates by half a percentage point. That should be welcome news for all Americans in need of a loan: business owners, college students, and anyone looking to buy a home. Until March 2022, the US enjoyed historically low interest rates. This […] Read more ›
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Sen. J.D. Vance has fashioned himself as a different kind of Republican. He is an “anti-regime,” “anti-elitist” populist who believes that America’s social order is “tilted toward the few.” He has decried traditional economic conservatism as an ideology that “subordinates human life and community to a false ideal of the market somehow existing independent of […] Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled that the Green Party must be removed from that state’s 2024 ballot because of a paperwork error. Nevada law requires people who collect petition signatures seeking to place a “minor party” on the ballot to “verify that they believe each person signing the petition is a registered voter […] Read more ›
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This week, there’s been yet another wave of extreme weather around the globe. North Carolina was hit with a historic amount of rain. Central and Eastern Europe have experienced some of their worst flooding in decades. And Nigeria has faced unprecedented floods following multiple days of torrential precipitation. Individually, the disasters have been damaging; together, […] Read more ›
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Additional explosions, reportedly involving thousands of walkie-talkies, went off in Lebanon Wednesday, a day after hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria in an attack that apparently targeted members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party. Israel was reportedly behind both attacks, though it has not taken public credit. […] Read more ›
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A few months ago, I wrote about a proposal called the End Kidney Deaths Act, which seeks to make sure that every one of the more than 135,000 Americans who get diagnosed with kidney failure every year has access to a kidney transplant. Its method is simple: a federal tax credit worth $10,000 a year […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday, we launched a new way for us to answer your questions. Our Explain It to Me franchise will include a weekly podcast, weekly newsletter, and regular videos that all focus on what our audience wants to know. The first podcast episode answers a listener’s question about whether his dentist is scamming him while […] Read more ›
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