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Embryos in a dish

Walter Isaacson on how gene editing will change lives

CRISPR has enabled us to manipulate the code of life. Where might it take us next?

Fingers type on a laptop keyboard

Email's death grip is strangling us, says computer scientist

Are we doing our work, or just talking about it?

A grocery store aisle of cleaning and disinfecting products

Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences

The world has gotten really clean during the pandemic and our hypersanitized lives may pose health risks.

The US Constitution's first page

Americans are prone to reading Constitution as scripture, says legal scholar

Regarding the Constitution as divine amounts to “constitutional fundamentalism,” according to one law professor.

trays of printed social security checks from the US Treasury

A proposal to wipe out childhood poverty in the US

A Social Security benefit for the nation’s neediest kids would virtually eradicate poverty for children, says one leading economist.

A yacht maneuvers near homes on Palm Island

Cities suffer when the 1% leave

Why many of us lose when the wealthiest move out of high-tax cities.

Man shopping in the produce section of an American grocery store

The behind-the-shelves story of American supermarkets

How the grocery store became our one-stop food haven — and the dark side of that success.

Empty office desks in a building in DC

Do offices have a future?

We may have left office jobs in the prepandemic world.

Side view of a cross section of a human brain in glass

How the West came to dominate our brains

It’s a weird, weird world.

CDC Director Dr. Redfield and Dr. Fauci leave a meeting together. A screen displays the text, "Opening Up America Again."

American exceptionalism in a pandemic

COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. It’s also created a moment to turn things right side up.

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