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Updated 2025-07-02 20:45
Alexander Payne sizes up the world in 'Downsizing'
“Sideways” director Alexander Payne shrinks the world’s problems in “Downsizing.”
Ode to an Enigma: How Bobbie Gentry ghosted us all
The mysterious story of Bobbie Gentry and her famous song “Ode to Billie Joe.”
After Charlottesville, some are asking what to do about 'Gone With the Wind'
It may be the most popular American film of all time, but, like other Confederate monuments, "Gone With the Wind" is undergoing some reappraisal in light of heightened racial tensions and awareness in the US.
After 1,000 days of civil war in Yemen, violence has become 'normalized'
On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia entered the Yemen civil war with support from the US and the UK. A Western reporter and Yemenis from the north to the south tell how warring sides are dug in and civilians are becoming accustomed to the fighting.
Young South Africans once worshipped the ANC. Now 'the party of Mandela' is tarnished.
This week Cyril Ramaphosa was elected the new president of South Africa's African National Congress. It was seen as a modest victory for reformers. But will it be enough to restore young South Africans' faith in the party and country?
The art made by Guantánamo Bay detainees
The artwork of war detainees in Guantánamo Bay is now on part of an art exhibit in New York City.
Bitcoin's sky-rocketing energy use is a viral story. We checked the math.
Bitcoin's energy draw is probably somewhere between Google's and Bulgaria's.
The late Cardinal Law will be remembered as the face of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis
Cardinal Bernard Law has been described as "a titan of 20th century American Catholicism." But he will be remembered for one thing: covering up child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.
A Venezuelan couple found refuge in Puerto Rico. Then the hurricane hit.
Venezuela used to have a thriving Jewish population. But many of them fled violence and economic collapse. One couple was settling into their new life in San Juan when Hurricane Maria hit.
China hires former British prime minister to help make One Belt, One Road a reality
A spokesperson for former British Prime Minister David Cameron said the fund will “invest in innovative and sustainable growth opportunities in both the UK and China to create jobs and further boost trade links.”
British singer Petula Clark hits the road — maybe to a 'Downtown' near you
Despite a career that goes back more than six decades, British singer Petula Clark still has it. With such a long career, one would think that hopping on a bus, traveling across the US, would be old hat by now. But Petula Clark is in the midst of her first tour of the US.
Algodón Egipcio’s 'La Estrella Irregular' is another way to understand the ongoing crisis in Venezuela
Algodón Egipcio’s “La Estrella Irregular” is an electronic-pop lullaby that explores a medley of dreamy, bright and chopping tropical sounds. But the song also gives a poetic and experienced perspective on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.
Words to live by in 2017
What are the words and images that best describe this past year? And why do some people think "whom" is obsolete?
Miami residents fear 'climate gentrification' as investors seek higher ground
As water levels rise, residents of Miami's Little Haiti fear rising rents. Will people fleeing the beach push them out?
The FCC voted to scrap net neutrality rules. Smaller, independent websites could take a big hit.
Net neutrality advocates say the FCC's vote to scrap Open Internet rules passed by the Obama administration in 2015 will have a disproportionate effect on small and independent content providers and websites catering to communities that are underrepresented in the media.
How a few notations by a school resource officer caused a teen to wind up in a high-security detention facility
Henry Lemus Calderón, 19, is incarcerated in a high-security unit, and he can’t figure out why. Though in the country illegally, he was never arrested for any crime and never ordered removed, and he bristles at the notion of being considered in need of high security.
Trump can't seem to agree with his own national security strategy
On Monday, President Donald Trump named Russia and China as top rivals. But Laicie Heeley, host of PRI's new podcast "Things that go boom" says the speech was sometimes inconsistent with the written National Security Strategy document submitted to Congress by his advisors.
Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump'
Iceland's new prime minister is an environmental feminist, anti-war, crime-novel expert who wants to make Iceland carbon-neutral by the year 2040. At 41, she is one of the youngest world leaders today and is the most trusted political leader in her country, in poll after poll.
Russia thanks CIA for tip that thwarted terror attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank the CIA for a tip, which he says thwarted a terrorist attack in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. How unusual is this kind of intelligence-sharing between rivals?
KOKOKO! makes experimental afropop with found objects
The Congolese collective KOKOKO! repurposes typewriters, coffee cans, CPUs and more to create afropop-infused experimental music.
On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs
The teen and his advocates insist that he's being swept up and threatened with deportation because of teenage bravado, rather than actual evidence.
Britain's strange addiction to a medieval Christmas treat
Christmas in Britain has many similarities to other European and North American countries: Santa Claus, Christmas trees, turkeys and awkward family gatherings. But there is one extra element: mince pies
How journalists corroborate sexual harassment and assault claims
Reporting on sexual harassment claims can be difficult. Here's how some journalists are taking that challenge on.
Dog owners live longer, a new study says
While even good human relationships can be complicated, a family dog will unfailingly greet its members with simple joy. Now, a new study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that, along with the blessing of uncritical friendship, household dogs can actually help people live longer.
In DNA testing, ‘Yeti’ samples come up bears, bears, bears
Scientists recently revealed that nine rumored Yeti samples from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau region were — not quite.
Hampshire College goes 100 percent solar
Hampshire is the first residential college in the US to source its electricity entirely from renewable energy.
How Can Math Make Your Holidays Merrier?
The High Energy Cost Of Bitcoin’s Rise
Preventing A ‘Digital Dark Age’
Steering Toward Greener Transportation
Searching For Answers To An Age-Old Question
Humans Outweigh Climate’s Influence On Fire
May Your Days Be Merry, But Less Bright
A Return To The Moon, An Ancient Bludgeon, And Anesthetized Plants
Chumash firefighters battle wildfires and protect sacred sites in California
Some firefighters in the Chumash Fire department in Santa Ynez double as "cultural specialists" to try and protect indigenous cultural sites.
Somalis face 'slave ship conditions' on failed deportation flight
MC Afrikan Boy's 'Wot It Do?' is a call to action
MC Afrikan Boy, Olushola Ajose, returns with his latest track, "Wot it Do?" It’s a danceable, club-ready track that aims to bring people to the dance floor.
The car bomb and the journalist: the murder that showed the 'Two Maltas'
It was just before three o’clock in the afternoon on Oct. 16 when Malta’s most famous, outspoken blogger got into her car for what was to be the last time. Minutes later, a bomb planted under the driver’s seat flung the vehicle into a field beside the road. Daphne Caruana Galizia, who’d relentlessly attacked corruption in the tiny island nation, was dead.
H&M's statement about sexual harassment allegations in Bangladeshi factories
The company is a big buyer from factories in Bangladesh.
In San Juan, they're going street by street, house by house, turning the lights back on
More than 450 power line workers from the New York area are on the ground in Puerto Rico trying to impose some order on the island's battered electric grid.
Australia reckons with the national tragedy of child sexual abuse
Five years and thousands of interviews later, an Australian government investigation has released its final report on child sexual abuse. The prime minister said it added up to, "a national tragedy."
At a year-end press conference, a handful of journalists try to hold Putin accountable
Vladimir Putin's end-of-year presser lasted nearly four hours, and included a few moments of drama.
In one of his final acts as mayor, Ed Lee stands up for 'comfort women'
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning. One of his last acts of mayor was to back a city memorial to the so-called comfort women of World War II, a move that angered its sister city, Osaka.
How creative are you?
Forget the SATs or Common Core. A psychologist created a different kind of standardized test to evaluate students: it measures your creativity.
Gary Marcus: Defining creativity
Creativity is almost always associated with the arts, but Gary Marcus tells us how creativity takes on different forms in all aspects of life.
Gary Marcus: Enhancing creativity
Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?
Russia’s influence in the Middle East is growing
The phrase "punching above its weight" is often used regarding Vladimir Putin's Russia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Russia's growing influence in the Middle East. And it seems that's mostly at the expense of the US.
Is the semitruck of the future electric?
Tesla recently unveiled the Tesla Semi, an all-electric truck. USA Today tech reporter Marco della Cava explains why it may not flip the industry just yet.
They got married in Seoul and a week later, China invaded
A US Marine met his future wife at the US Embassy in Seoul just months before the start of the Korean War. Their love story spanned seven decades.
In Estonia, almost everything — from voting to updating medical records — can be done online
Estonia has a population less than half that of Silicon Valley. But the small Baltic nation has managed to put itself on the map as on of the most digitally innovative countries in the world through it's E-Stonia project, which has digitized almost all aspects of citizen life.
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