America no longer has a monopoly on deadly drones
Last Sunday, three US service members were killed and more than 40 were wounded in a drone strike on a US base in Jordan. According to Joshua Keating, it appears to be the first time US service members were killed by an enemy drone — a fact that underscores the growing democratization of drone warfare.
🎧 Let's fix retirement together
In an election year that will likely be light on substantive policy dialogue, Jonquilyn Hill's conversation with economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on America's broken retirement system and how we can fix it feels like a badly needed tonic. It's a lively discussion that offers a prismatic look at the problem — basically, too many Americans don't have enough to retire on — and the possibilities for a better future.
You're probably eating way too much protein
Oh, am I? Okay, fine, I probably am. Kenny Torrella gets into the nitty-gritty of Americans' diets, how obsessed we seem to be with protein, and why that's a problem for animals and the planet. The best thing about Kenny's piece is that it gives us constructive guidance on how we can adjust our diets if we want to rebalance them. (Spoiler alert: It involves fiber.)
What we're getting wrong about 2024's "moderate" voters
Our elections always seem to revolve around winning over the moderate voters, but do we know who those people really are? Christian Paz explains that our image of moderates might not match the reality, and offers a framework for understanding a demographic that looms so large in our politics.
Narendra Modi is celebrating his scary vision for India's future
It's a big year for democracy, and one of the places where its future may be charted is India. The world's largest democracy will have elections in a couple of months; at stake is whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi's illiberal vision of a Hindu nationalist India carries the day. That vision was on full display a couple weeks ago when a new Hindu temple, built on the site of an ancient mosque previously torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, was unveiled and celebrated by millions of Indians. Zack Beauchamp explained the larger stakes behind the occasion.
📹 The tragic story of this famous meteorite
One of the signature exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History is an enormous iron meteorite that explorer Robert Perry brought back from Greenland in 1897. But it wasn't all he brought back. On the ship back to New York were six members of the Inughuit, an indigenous tribe from Greenland. This Vox video tells the tragic story of those Inughuit, a piece of hidden history that you'd never know about from the museum's exhibit.
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