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World in trouble — Cuba, Tunisia, Iran, Myanmar

It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society.

Biles joins a growing number of younger athletes, including her fellow Olympian tennis star Naomi Osaka, who are pushing against the traditional American narrative of gold at all costs, including the expense of their own mental or physical health.

Pandemic relief measures are hobbled by serious failures of program design and implementation.

“Policies to alleviate the climate crisis or any of the other threatened planetary boundary transgressions should not be focused on symptom relief but on addressing their root cause: the overexploitation of the Earth,”

Lightning-rod issues such as critical race theory and “defund the police” are a staple for Republican contenders.

Among this month's offerings on Netflix: several feature debuts, including Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" and Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station, Mati Diop’s "Atlantics,” and Numa Perrier’s “Jezebel.”

Will Pegasus spyware take surveillance to a new level? Also the big comics rip-off, Forbes predicts next year's social media, and more

In Why the New Deal Matters, the historian Eric Rauchway gives us his own interpretation and suggests how liberalism might rebound in the present. A Review of Why the New Deal Matters, By Eric Rauchway, Yale University Press; 2021

From Canada to Colombia, protests erupt against legacies of violence, exploitation and cultural erasure