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The French navy frigate, bristling with weaponry and powering through frigid Norwegian seas not so far from Russia, awoke at 7:30 a.m. sharp to what,...
Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the world to listen in on your most private conversations. Unthinkable, right? Yet, in the digital...
On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of...
Two things are certain concerning Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. First, he will be reelected as president in the rigged election scheduled to run...
She’s one of the most photographed women in the world. But attention on Kate, the Princess of Wales, hasn’t reached this level since she married...
Having harmony with others is very important in Japanese society. So, people rarely make a racket in public. However, Japan is also a conflict-averse...
Since his tumultuous takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has made an unabashed turn to the right politically, defying the orthodoxy that Silicon Valley is...
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and...
When South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol broke out into an impromptu performance of the song “American Pie” at a gala White House dinner in 2023,...
In some movies, religion hits viewers over the head – including films that take home the industry’s biggest prizes. No one could miss...
The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster. After years of...
Is reducing working hours a sign of progress? Since the 19th century, the number of hours spent at work has been steadily declining in developed...
Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, says the First Amendment gives him the right to publish publicly available information...
It is possible, in politics as in life, for several things to be true at once. It is true that Donald Trump and his plans for a second presidential...
Almost two years after the West responded to the Russian invasion in Ukraine with a blistering array of sanctions, a fresh round of financial measures...
Campaign finance data released at the end of January revealed that Save America, a political action committee founded and controlled by former...
To adult viewers, educational media content for children, such as “Sesame Street” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” may seem rather...
In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says...
Before Donald Trump likened himself to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the former president frequently compared himself with a completely opposite...
French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to create "strategic ambiguity" by openly discussing the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine, but he was...
In a shift from tit-for-tat tariffs and strong-arm tactics to tech restrictions and investment curbs, U.S. policy towards China has become more...
The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence...
On Super Bowl Sunday, Beyoncé released two country songs – “16 Carriages” and “Texas Hold ‘Em” – that elicited a mix of admiration and...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
Both my parents worked for 30-plus years for their employers – they had lifelong careers at a single company. Growing up, they taught me the...
A major transformation is underway in Romancelandia. Once upon a time, romance novels from major U.S. publishers featured only heterosexual couples....
Earlier this month, when Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian...
If Florida Gov Ron DeSantis had his way, the word “woke” would be banished from public use and memory. As he promised in Iowa in December 2023...
Preelection polls have been inescapable early in the 2024 election year, setting storylines, as they invariably do, for journalists and pundits about...
For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to a brutal start. Most spectacularly, the Los Angeles Times recently slashed more than 20% of its newsroom....
So why are people still working so hard for so long? Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the U.S. The standard...
Once upon a time The Economist cleverly patented a Big Mac index to show the relative cost of the same giant burger item across the globe. Now...
Social media CEOs got grilled by Senate lawmakers last week in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to...
As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride. Many...
Japan’s exit in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup on February 3 will make the Japan Football Association question whether or not Hajime Moriyasu is...
Donald Trump, the front-runner in the U.S. for the Republican Party's nomination this year, says he once warned that he would allow Russia to do...
If the films of Norman Jewison, who died on Jan 22, had a unifying theme, it was how his characters searched for meaning and questioned the rules of...
The sweeping military shakeup that replaced Ukraine's popular army chief this week throws up big political and military risks for President Volodymyr...
Teachers across the the U.S. are grappling with whether to view AI tools like ChatGPT as friend or foe in the classroom. My research shows that the...
At this moment in the 2024 election cycle, complaining about Fox News — even if for different reasons — may be what unites Donald Trump, Nikki...
When U.S. and Australian troops practiced amphibious landings, ground combat and air operations last summer, they drew headlines about the allies...
A pop icon falling for one of the NFL’s preeminent superstars may seem like a slice of Americana – a scene from a small-town high school magnified...
Climate activism has been on a wild ride lately, from the shock tactics of young activists throwing soup on famous paintings to a surge in climate...
Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on...
As the title suggests, Carlo Bordini’s "Ethical Violence" studies the ways different forms of violence – especially but not only, war – come...
As former President Donald Trump edges closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, our political science research has shown...
The new hit Japanese film "Godzilla Minus One" – an homage to Ishiro Honda’s original 1954 film "Gojira" (more commonly known to English...
Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn the...
As the U.S. presidential campaign moves closer to a Donald Trump-Joe Biden rematch, China is watching uneasily. First, there are concerns about the...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday was forced to start this year's parliamentary session with an apology over one of the country's...