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A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
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Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn’t fix everything.
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University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
Charitable giving in the US is down. But generosity goes beyond dollars.
Teen jobs aren’t what they used to be. They’re worse.
Your summer won’t be as good as you think it will be. It never is.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
How a worker-driven initiative is filling in the gaps left behind by corporate social responsibility programs.
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I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
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Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
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More refugees live in cities. Could cash help them rebuild their lives?
“The survivors would envy the dead.”
Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has debt.
Scientists are testing futuristic tools to dismantle antibiotic resistance.
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Churches, mosques, and temples could change the game on affordable housing.
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The debate that will steer the future of consciousness — and us.
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