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Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
"Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications." —Tony Blair
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“This is much deeper than just ‘let’s figure out how we can get both sides to get along.’”
Can Detroit get its comeback right?
In 200 years, the mortality rate for children under the age of five (per 1,000 live births) has dropped from 40% to 3.7%.
Our economy is dominated by middlemen, including huge companies such as Walmart and Amazon. There are many benefits to going direct instead.
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
Africa has the most universities in the 2022 rankings with over two thirds of the world’s youngest universities.
Recent geopolitical turning points, like Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were chapters in a story that extends decades back in world history.
Some economists predict China's economy will overtake the U.S. economy by 2028.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
Although saying the wrong thing could often get you killed in ancient civilizations, history shows that the ideal of free speech has deep roots.
The U.S. has the world's largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan's is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
In 2015, the United States brokered a revolutionary international deal with Iran about their nuclear programme. Here’s the science behind it. In 2015, a historic agreement was reached between Iran and […]