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Gen X Leads the Slow Travel Revival

Gen X Leads the Slow Travel Revival

Gen X is reviving slow travel with longer stays, analog habits, and real spending power. Here's why the shift is reshaping the travel industry.

Four-Day Workweek Goes Global. The Gender Gap Widens.

Four-Day Workweek Goes Global. The Gender Gap Widens.

The four-day workweek is going global, but the gender pay gap is widening. Here is who benefits and who gets left behind.

Metformin Boosts Gut GLP-1 to Fight Diabetes

Metformin Boosts Gut GLP-1 to Fight Diabetes

New research shows metformin boosts gut GLP-1 production, rivaling pricier injectables. Here's what that means for affordable diabetes care.

FISA 702 Expiration Forces AI Surveillance Reckoning

FISA 702 Expiration Forces AI Surveillance Reckoning

FISA Section 702 expires April 2026 with no replacement plan. How AI surveillance outpaced the law and what Congress must fix next.

Nina Simone on the Only Freedom That Matters

Nina Simone on the Only Freedom That Matters

Nina Simone strips freedom down to its core: not rights on paper, not protest songs, but the absence of fear itself.

A Thousand Times Over

A Thousand Times Over

How a kite falling from a winter sky in Kabul reveals the weight we carry and the distance we travel to set it down.

AI Floods Social Media While Quality Content Vanishes

AI Floods Social Media While Quality Content Vanishes

AI-generated content now dominates social feeds while human creator reach drops. Here's what the data shows and how audiences can push back.

Urban Economies Block True 15-Minute City Dreams

Urban Economies Block True 15-Minute City Dreams

The 15-minute city concept is undermined by rising rents, exclusionary zoning, and developer incentives that price out the people it was meant to serve.

Young Designers Blend Heritage Crafts Into Global Fashion

Young Designers Blend Heritage Crafts Into Global Fashion

Young designers from Lagos to Seoul are weaving ancestral craft traditions into global fashion, reshaping luxury, sustainability, and cultural identity.

Tu Youyou's Nobel Tribute to Forgotten Scientists

Tu Youyou's Nobel Tribute to Forgotten Scientists

Tu Youyou honors the unsung Chinese scientists who searched for antimalarial drugs under scarce resources forty years before the world took notice.