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How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.

Wealthy Chinese are pushing to overturn their national cuisine’s image as fast and cheap.

The European Union is funding the Libyan coast guard to keep migrants out of Europe and detain them in a failed state—and that leaves them at the mercy of militias and human traffickers.

Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.

Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected the telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country that was willing and able to carry it out: Israel.

Find out how the Democrats agree and differ on key global issues.

The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.

Dramatic projects to mitigate global warming often don’t work. Slow, quiet, incremental policies are the planet’s best hope.

Meet five unlikely saviors of Earth's climate crisis.

Young people care a lot about climate change—but most of them can’t vote. Here’s how governments can adapt to accommodate them.

A decade after the world bailed out finance, it’s time for finance to bail out the world.

Crops already suck up a lot of carbon dioxide. One scientist thinks they can do much more.