I’ve been reading journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book about the 1929 crash, and it’s been sending me into a bit of a ...

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The U.S. government has threatened military intervention to prevent a ‘genocide’ in Africa’s largest democracy. But data ...

Nick Bostrom literally wrote the book on superintelligence. When machines can do nearly everything better than we can, he says, we must ask what is our purpose.

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

Listen to this story on SoundCloud or by downloading the Audm app. On a snowy January day in 2016, a small crowd assembled in central Kyiv to honor the fight against the far right. The gathering of ...