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What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work

Is a new age of digital offshoring coming?

Biden is threatening to withhold some weapons from Israel. Is it a real shift in policy?

The US has offered unconditional military aid to Israel throughout the war in Gaza. As of this week, that might be changing.

Baby Reindeer’s messy stalking has led to more messy stalking offscreen

As a woman named Fiona Harvey claims to be the real-life stalker, the paradox of true crime as entertainment strikes again.

Why Florida and Alabama banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist

Bans on cell-cultivated, "lab-grown" meat are about protecting Big Ag.

Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?

We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up discovering something much bigger.

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

Mexico City is staring down a water crisis. It won’t be the last city to do so.

How TikTok Shop ads turned an obscure, inaccurate book into a bestseller

Was this book the reason TikTok is getting banned in the US? No, but ads saying so sold a lot of copies.

John Fetterman has beef with no-kill meat

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cell-cultivated or "lab-grown" meat. Why did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman lend his support?