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We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

By Amy Weiss-Meyer

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

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The Conclave Just Did the Unthinkable

By Francis X. Rocca

What an American pope means for the Catholic Church and the world

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Why This India-Pakistan Conflict Is Different

By Vaibhav Vats

India and Pakistan are fueling each other’s extremism without an off-ramp in sight.

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Israel Plunges Into Darkness

By Gershom Gorenberg

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

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AI Is Not Your Friend

By Mike Caulfield

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

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