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  • condomAsia

    China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills

    By Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and The Conversation
  • raccoonNorth America

    For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store

    By Kelly Lambert and The Conversation
  • trumpNorth America

    How Trump became a death knell for the 85-year relationship between farmers and the federal government

    By Peter Simons and The Conversation
  • venezuelaPolitics

    The U.S. has absorbed 1 million Venezuelans over the past decade. That’s much more recent than most immigrants

    By Matt Brooks, Karin Brewster, and others
  • greenlandEurope

    Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite

    By Paul Bierman and The Conversation
  • kidsSuccess

    The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children. Even more, it showed how much of social life happens online

    By Rebekah Willett, Amanda Levido, and others
  • dairyHealth

    How the new protein and dairy diet flies in the face of modern guidelines, according to a nutritionist who served on the advisory board until 2024

    By Cristina Palacios and The Conversation
  • ICELaw

    Most police forces banned shooting at moving vehicles decades ago, and Biden asked ICE to do it in 2022. So why isn’t it policy?

    By Ben Jones and The Conversation
  • cubaPolitics

    Why Trump’s Venezuela strike may have been about Cuba as much as it was about oil

    By Joseph J. Gonzalez and The Conversation
  • maduroPolitics

    Why whatever’s happening in Venezuela isn’t ‘regime change’

    By Andrew Latham and The Conversation
  • venezuelaEnergy

    From Latin America’s richest country 100 years ago to a founding member of OPEC, the long history of Venezuela’s oil and U.S. ties, explained

    By James Trapani and The Conversation
  • jon hammC-Suite

    When brands play hard to get: why you’re drawn to products that neg you

    By Jaclyn L. Tanenbaum, Karen Anne Wallach, and others
  • MaduroPolitics

    Could Venezuela be another Iraq or Afghanistan? Lessons from American statecraft in force and legitimacy

    By Monica Duffy Toft and The Conversation
  • TrumpPolitics

    From Trump walking away to ‘managed instability,’ Princeton expert on Latin-U.S. relations sees 5 scenarios for Venezuela

    By Robert Muggah and The Conversation
  • workFuture of Work

    Management professors who studied the dreaded work offsite say think twice about skipping it this year

    By Madeline Kneeland, Adam M. Kleinbaum, and others