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The Department of Homeland Security misrepresented two Venezuelan immigrants as members of the Tren de Aragua gang after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot them in Oregon in January, according to immigra...
Venezuelan oil exports soared in January as the Trump administration begins to oversee the country's industry following the capture of authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, according to a new report...
In a later image from inside the Oval Office, the official appeared holding a sheet featuring the Colombian flag and the phrase "Colombia, America's #1 ally against narcoterrorists"
Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and c...
We are seeing the return of overt geopolitics: a style of major power politics that does not bother to hide behind international law or multilateral norms. That’s good news for China – and bad news fo...
What happens when everyone knows the same thing, and knows that everyone else knows it? Steven Pinker adventures into the subtle but powerful concept of common knowledge, revealing how it shapes money...
Here in our isolated corner of the Universe, we don’t normally think about all the objects, particles, and photons that miss us, even though we know they’re ubiquitous out there. Instead, ...
When I visited flourishing groups, I noticed that being with them felt different. They possessed a vibrancy, a switched-on responsiveness that showed up in their bodies. Their posture, in general, was...
Since the dawn of the quantum era, perhaps no question has loomed larger in the minds of theoretical physicists than just what, exactly, the nature of reality is. Are quantum objects real, with well-d...
When France began mandatory education for all children in the late 1800s, it required a way to assess the “mental age” of students to properly place them in the right classrooms. Two French psychologi...
In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions- by Catherine NicholsRead on Aeon
How do you capture something invisible? A blustery short revels in the sights and sounds of a windswept day on the coast- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy- by Daniel WaldenströmRead on Aeon
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration will send humanitarian aid to Cuba but hold off on oil shipments due to an order from President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on countries w...
Former staffers of Republican Rep. Nancy Mace are voicing concern about her mental wellbeing, with one saying the "best thing for her is to no longer be in the media all the time, and to enjoy private...
Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and current deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council said the United States' seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has shattered international re...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed banning formal cooperation agreements between local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon privately boasted to Jeffrey Epstien about a secret, privately funded border wall in Texas, according to a new report.
What do you call the artistic technique that creates contrasts of light and dark?