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By Andrew Latham and The ConversationJanuary 8, 2026
EnergyFrom 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 ConversationJanuary 6, 2026
By Jaclyn L. Tanenbaum, Karen Anne Wallach and The ConversationJanuary 6, 2026
PoliticsCould Venezuela be another Iraq or Afghanistan? Lessons from American statecraft in force and legitimacy
By Monica Duffy Toft and The ConversationJanuary 5, 2026
PoliticsFrom Trump walking away to ‘managed instability,’ Princeton expert on Latin-U.S. relations sees 5 scenarios for Venezuela
By Robert Muggah and The ConversationJanuary 5, 2026
Future of WorkManagement professors who studied the dreaded work offsite say think twice about skipping it this year
By Madeline Kneeland, Adam M. Kleinbaum and The ConversationDecember 27, 2025
Cybersecurity2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’
By Siwei Lyu and The ConversationDecember 27, 2025
HealthWhy you feel so anxious and stressed during the holidays, even though you’re probably just sitting around, watching TV and eating
By Stacy Shaw and The ConversationDecember 26, 2025
EuropeChristmas 500 years ago was a drunken 6-week feast that may have been considerably better than the modern holiday, medieval historian says
By Bobbi Sutherland and The ConversationDecember 25, 2025
Arts & EntertainmentAmerican Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage
By Samira Mehta and The ConversationDecember 24, 2025
By Alex Jensen and The ConversationDecember 23, 2025
AIIt’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans
By Ambuj Tewari and The ConversationDecember 22, 2025
CommentaryColorado is suffering from Christmas Tree inflation because Denver imports most of them—from North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest
By Ali Besharat and The ConversationDecember 16, 2025
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