“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long ...

The once-bustling corridors of the State Department are tomblike as ambassadors scrape for information. First published in The Atlantic on February 24, 2026.

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

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Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without understanding what we even mean by the term. The first thing to know about pressure is ...

Having started Teach for America, back in 1989, and then Teach for All—a network of similar organizations across more than 60 countries—I’ve spent almost four decades trying to inspire young people ...

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Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes—and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus, expelled from an infected but asymptomatic child who is hopping and ...

Ein jüdischer Student wird in Berlin brutal zusammengeschlagen. Ein Ex-Kommilitone gesteht vor Gericht die Tat, ein ...

Schon lange zogen die riesigen Vulkanfelsen im Sauerland Menschen an. Neue archäologische Funde geben nun Hinweise auf die ...

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - In mehreren Städten in Nordrhein-Westfalen wollen Schüler und Schülerinnen heute wieder gegen das neue ...