by Brian Howey
Howey dives into the obsessive culture of collecting carnivorous house plants, and how the culture is leading to the illegal poaching and extinction of all kinds of wild and sought after species.
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by Anonymous
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by Erik Sherman
"We can preserve a lot of information digitally, but the process is far from perfect."
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by Rebecca Ackermann
"The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats."
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by Nicholas Lemann

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by Matias Vernengo
As inflation rises throughout the world, governments and economists are arguing about its cause. Many see excess demand as a root cause, with ports and distribution hubs backed up for days. Others cry wolf on government spending, others blame the increasing profits of billionaires and large firms. Vernengo hopes to pick apart these theories under a socialist lens.
300 days ago

by The Economist
A more-or-less unified response to the war in Ukraine took many in the West by surprise. Although diplomacy failed to stop the war, it seemed to succeed in bringing together a group of nations under a common cause.
308 days ago

by The Economist
Throughout the pandemic, there was much criticism and approval of China's COVID policies. They both seemed overly authoritarian yet seemed to work way better than the rest of the world.
308 days ago

by The Economist
The way the world views energy has changed. Many countries are trying to untie themselves from dependence on others, while also transitioning to "green" energy whose primary materials could be highly concentrated in a small number of nations.
308 days ago