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Dec 17, 2024 · Making energetics, in particular, is expensive, difficult, and, traditionally, a major source of pollution. In the U.S., old Army-ammunition plants figure prominently in the more than 600 military ...

Dec 29, 2024 · This is my third time honoring what I see as the year’s most important scientific and technological advances. In 2022, my theme was the principle of “twin ideas,” when similar inventions ...

Charlie Warzel is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Galaxy Brain, about technology, media, and big ideas.He can be reached via email.He is a co-author of Out of ...

Dec 23, 2024 · Americans have record-low trust in the media. They’re reading traditional news less. Platforms, too, have broken up with news organizations, making it harder for them to attract readers to their ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Yet today, crypto’s culture is far more diffuse. Exchanges such as Coinbase and Robinhood have effectively opened trading markets to anyone with a bank account and a smartphone.

Oct 18, 2024 · Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin, as a ...

Nov 4, 2024 · A t a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors ...

Sep 25, 2024 · Donald Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs as high as 60 percent on imports from China, and a global tariff of 10 to 20 percent, takes the right approach to addressing globalization’s failures ...

Dec 23, 2024 · This morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole.