Online Spaces for Children Don’t Have to Be Outlawed. They Just Have to Be Safe Enough.
In well-designed play environments, safety is not achieved by eliminating risk but by designing for it.
Opinion
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How Climate Change and Weather Shaped 250 Years of U.S. History
Cold, rain, drought, and warming have both helped and harmed Americans’ efforts at pivotal moments.
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What Revised Emissions Scenarios Mean for Climate Governance
New scenarios don’t mean that climate change isn’t real or risky. We still have to decide what kind of future we will accept.
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US Healthcare Was Never Built to Work – Here’s What Could Replace It
Meaningful reform requires acknowledging the gap between what health insurance promises and what it currently delivers.
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No One Is Building America’s $500 Drone
As the U.S. restricts Chinese drones, American manufacturers are focusing on military systems — leaving firefighters, search teams, and other civilian users without affordable alternatives.
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What We Don’t Know About Women’s Health Can Kill Us
My symptoms weren’t just perimenopause. They were signs of cancer — and better care might save others from delayed diagnoses.
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The Rohingya Crisis Is Also a Climate Story
The humanitarian response continues to be framed almost entirely around protection from persecution, rather than around long-term resilience to recurring environmental shocks.
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Who Controls Science?
Competing narratives emerge not because evidence is inherently ambiguous, but because power determines which knowledge is visible, legitimate, or silenced.
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World Ocean Day 2026 Advocates for Strong Marine Protected Areas
Boundaries matter only if we enforce them, and if they are put in the right places to begin with.
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The Myth of the Irreplaceable Scientist
To create fair promotion and evaluation systems, academia might learn something from biology: Cells do not rely on one individual; tissues survive because they are adaptable and redundant.