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The ISS will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere in a few years, paving the way for new businesses in space.

Tutu’s reconciliation efforts were supposed to be followed by justice for apartheid victims. That is yet to happen.

It’s not good enough to blame Joe Manchin for failures when Biden isn’t using the full scope of presidential powers to help ordinary Americans. It’s vital Biden begins to use the full extent of his presidential powers to make far-reaching change

Elected on the heels of a historic movement against neoliberalism, president-elect Gabriel Boric will face high expectations and social movement pressure to deliver on his campaign promises.

A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of a momentous African civilization. Great Zimbabwe should be a “symbol”, not just of Africa’s power and potential, but of how outsiders have too often told Africans’ stories—and got them wrong.

Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.

The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.

Without putting up a fight, it shelved its own plan to reverse Trump’s course, dimming hopes for peace talks.

Because there wasn’t an equal amount of matter and anti-matter in the early universe? That solves the problem. Case closed? Of course not. Because physicists make a living from solving problems - so they have an incentive to create problems.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.