“I have never been in my whole life as worried as I was on that day…about whether or not we could survive as a democracy. I think we're as divided...
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Lines in the sand
“There are more red lines right now, more lines between countries, between ideologies, between peoples than have ever really existed at any single...
Celebrating or Cursing Democracy?
This week the United States inaugurates a new President, much to the joy of many Americans, but to the utter dismay of millions of others. And the...
European Renaissance
“By tradition, by history, by culture, by philosophy, the model of the way of life in Europe is better for people, better for nature.” “It's a...
Gorillas (and people) in the Mist
A few days ago we were visiting the gorillas and you could see that they were actually quite happy to see visitors coming back. Some of them even...
America Chooses!
“I am a Trump supporter. I supported him in '16, voted for him in '20, but I had a raging case of Trump fatigue myself.... I was not that sorry to...
True Blue
Sylvia Earle, a finalist for the 2020 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, behaves like a woman running out of time, which she is. The world’s...
Objections Sustained
Sara Hossain can sound ambivalent about her role as honorary executive director of BLAST, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. “I don’t...
Data Minded
Nithya Ramanathan won’t deny that she loves engineering puzzles. “I just find them really fun to solve,” she says. “But ultimately I get pretty...