Cause & effect: Not every pandemic needs someone to blame
The public conversation has so often assigned blame for the spread of the coronavirus, based on ethnicity or underlying health conditions or political...
Crisis in US complicates diplomacy abroad
Volatility has become the new norm in Washington as the president heads to Japan, where he will reassure world leaders that the debt ceiling showdown...
Tunisian politics: Been there, done that: Dictatorship dangers
The current president, Kais Saied, came to power democratically. After a populist campaign in 2019 in which he presented himself as an outsider who...
In search of an antidote for poisonous mushrooms
And many scientists have tried to find a quick remedy. “There’s no antidote,” said Terrence Delaney, a plant biologist and mycologist at the...
In ancient Egypt, severed hands were spoils of war
The Hyksos are widely believed to have introduced the Egyptians to the horse and chariot, glass-working and all sorts of weaponry, including battle...
Erdogan’s grip on power loosened, not broken
Despite a struggling economy, the disastrous earthquakes in February and Turkey’s drift toward one-man rule, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in the...
France’s far right: Adults in the room
Recent polls showed that if last year’s head-to-head presidential election were held now, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Rassemblement...
With 62 newly discovered moons, Saturn knocks Jupiter out
“They both have many, many moons,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. But Saturn...
