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Is Anyone on Your Feed Real?

As AI-generated content floods today’s social media, people are starting to leave — pushing platforms toward new models built around authenticity.

By
James Wang

Technology

The AI Partnership’s Missing Contract

When AI research funded by both governments produces commercial products, no bilateral protocol exists to govern what happens next.

By
Javaid Sofi

Opinion

We’re Training Scientists for a World That No Longer Exists

Science can help address pressing challenges, but only if we train scientists to communicate in the places people actually form beliefs.

By
JP Flores

RECENT

There’s plenty to critique in today’s world. Our goal is to illuminate what’s possible.

Environment

What Past Energy Transitions Can Teach Us

New forms of energy drove prosperity between 1880 and 1930, not tariffs and immigration restrictions.

David E. Nye

Health

From Neuron to Neighborhood

Kenyan community care networks offer a model for how people can live well with dementia.

Edna N Bosire
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Zul Merali

Food

The Double Standard of Evidence

The wealthy can afford their skepticism. It is the poor who bear the consequences when herd immunity erodes.

Sanjay Basu, Senior Columnist

Technology

Is Anyone on Your Feed Real?

As AI-generated content floods today’s social media, people are starting to leave — pushing platforms toward new models built around authenticity.

James Wang

Space

Space Is Not a Human Rights Vacuum

The commercial space sector needs human rights due diligence.

Alyssa Macaluso, Junior Columnist

Energy

Small Reactors, Big Stakes

Russia’s war against Ukraine illustrates how energy can be weaponized against a single nation — and, by extension, an entire region. Are small, modular reactors the answer?

Ambassador Batu Kutelia