Alexandra Elbakyan is a Kazakhstan-born, Russian-based computer programmer and scientific activist. A supporter of the open science...

“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the public in 2012....

“How will Americans survive a pandemic with just a single $1200 check?”  This question has made the rounds on Twitter for the past year,...

As the disruption in our collective lived experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic prompts a rethinking of unsustainable consumption...

N95s, highly-protective masks that filter out at least 95 percent of airborne viral particles, are some of the most coveted products in...

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and journalist who spent more than twenty years working for The New York Times, primarily as a...

March again. Marking the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, this month is a testament to both the strength of the...

The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential election are the same as those from 2017: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen....

American birth rates are low, and that’s a problem. There are two ways to increase the population: incentivize childbirth or incentivize...

Redistrict Me This is a series of interviews with state legislators from across the United States. Conducted beginning in spring 2021,...

Frustrated that neither politicians nor the mainstream media adequately addressed the dramatic rise in anti-Asian violence witnessed...

Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School in New York City. She previously served as a faculty member in The New...

At 8:30 a.m. on August 9, 2018, an aerial bomb fell on a school bus in a market in Yemen, killing 40 children. The explosion was so...

50% of sexually active people will have at least one sexually transmitted infection by the age of 25. The frequency and severity of the...

The United States is one of the most socialist economies in the world. Most Americans would be surprised to hear this because we still...

“Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge...

In the new legislative session of 2021, Alabama’s elected officials have their work cut out for them. In Alabama, there have been 392,790...

In the 2017 German national elections, the populist radical-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party won 13 percent of seats in the...

Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit educational platform with 120 million registered users that offers free...

“Queer people exist in the rural South,” Annabeth Mellon told NBC News while describing her experience as a bisexual student in the...