Peace

In theory, social distancing is the perfect opportunity to finally clear out your Netflix queue. You're home all the time, your schedule's empty because everything's been canceled, and you need something to do lest you go stir crazy.  But in practice, it's not just the films we've been meaning to…

Infections don’t just attack weaknesses in the human body. They also exploit weaknesses in human society. Some disasters are small, and some disasters are just very far away. Covid-19 is neither. It’s big, and it’s here, and it’s fast. Infection rates are currently doubling roughly every three days. It’s going…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s infamous February 1942 Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast — citizens and aliens alike — remains a tremendous blight on the nation’s history. Yet, virtually unremembered is that on March 13, 1942, Roosevelt issued an…

Letters Aishwarya MaheshwariCollege of Forestry, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India.Email: aishwaryamaheshwari{at}gmail.com See allHide authors and affiliations Science  13 Mar 2020:Vol. 367, Issue 6483, pp. 1203DOI: 10.1126/science.aba9882 Read More

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(UNITED NATIONS) — The United States won unanimous U.N. Security Council backing Tuesday for the ambitious peace deal it signed with the Taliban aimed at ending the long war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home. The U.S.-sponsored resolution “welcomes the significant steps towards ending the war and opening the…

Most veterans of the 18-year war in Afghanistan wouldn’t have predicted this was how the fightback after the attacks of 9/11 would end: with the U.S. President calling the conflict a waste of American blood and treasure, and a U.S. peace deal with the Taliban forcing Afghan officials to sit…

On the morning of January 17th, shortly before I was scheduled to meet with a hundred and forty Peace Corps volunteers in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, there was an unexpected announcement that the China program was ending. The Peace Corps had first come to the country in 1993,…

Interactive feature includes photos and short bios of some of today's most influential women. Apple Apple launched an interactive feature on its homepage on Sunday -- International Women's Day -- to celebrate "women who are changing everything." The scrollable compilation of photos and short biographies of some of today's most…

What is Quibi? Is it the final frontier in the streaming wars? Is it vaporware that’s managed to secure nearly $2 billion in investment funding before it’s even launched? Is it going to be the next big thing people spend time watching while in the bathroom? No one really knows.…