Roughly 13 minutes into “The Alabama Solution,” a revelatory new documentary about the long-simmering humanitarian crisis in Alabama’s state prisons, filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked how she would broker a deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas, a stalemate President Joe Biden says he's been unable break through amid numerous attempts ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

With its recent advisory opinion, ICJ drew a clear pathway for peace, justice and security for all in Israel-Palestine. Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia ...

Exploring potential solutions, rather than focusing on problems, is the premise of solution-based therapy, a brief and actionable therapeutic approach to meeting challenges in life. Many psychotherapy ...

The cosmos may have something in common with a doughnut. In addition to their fried, sugary goodness, doughnuts are known for their shape, or in mathematical terms, their topology. In a universe with ...

On Feb. 19, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers signed new state legislative maps into law, ending a decade-long political and judicial dogfight that culminated in the state supreme court ruling that ...

Support for Hamas as a political party has fallen to 34% among Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a 12-point drop from December 2023, according to a poll released Wednesday by a leading ...

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Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The war in Gaza has focused attention once again on the search for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution favored by ...