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Global health is the world’s best investment

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The obscure federal intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right

28.05.2024 10

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People bet on sports. Why not on anything else?

25.05.2024 80500

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The breathtaking lifesaving impact of vaccines, in one chart

The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50 years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one...

25.04.2024 20

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Would you donate a kidney for $50,000?

What if I told you there was a way that the US could prevent 60,000 deaths, save American taxpayers $25 billion, and pay a deserving group of people...

17.04.2024 20

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The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There’s a better way.

Imagine a charity comes to you with an offer. If you give them a donation now, they’ll get it at least partially matched — so for every dollar you...

15.04.2024 10

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Pig kidney transplants are cool. They shouldn’t be necessary.

No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on you’re a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone you...

02.04.2024 10

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How AI could explode the economy

26.03.2024 30

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Congress can’t get anything done. Except on foreign aid.

Today’s Congress is not exactly a well-oiled machine. Even picking a speaker has proven to be incredibly difficult for the House, which took as many...

24.03.2024 10

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Why can’t anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be?

I’ve written a lot about AI and the debate over whether it could kill us all. But I still don’t really know where I come down. There are people...

13.03.2024 40

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Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

You can’t buy the Seagull in the US. But I bet you wish you could. A small hatchback around the size of a Mini Cooper, the Seagull is a...

04.03.2024 40

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I got to see the IRS’s free tax-filing software in action. Here’s what I learned.

It is oddly hard to file your income tax return in the US without working with a private company. Over 90 percent of returns are filed either by a...

26.02.2024 30

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How a ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events

13.02.2024 30

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Can the courts save us from dangerous AI?

One quote about AI I think about a lot is something that Jack Clark, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, told me last year:...

07.02.2024 10

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Biden invested big in more tax audits. A new IRS analysis claims it’s working.

In 2021, Americans owed about $625 billion in taxes that they never paid. This number, called the “tax gap,” represented some 13.7 percent of all...

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist and early web browser developer, thinks we’re giving too many insecticidal bednets to people...

25.01.2024 5

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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

17.01.2024 50

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How Congress is planning to lift 400,000 kids out of poverty

The child tax credit has had a roller coaster of a decade so far. In 2021, the Democratic Congress and Joe Biden enacted the largest-ever expansion of...

16.01.2024 7

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Do we really live in an “age of inequality”?

In recent weeks, a major debate has gripped the field of economics, one with significant policy stakes. In one sense, the debate is about the nature...

11.01.2024 6

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Are flying cars finally here?

On December 28 of last year, the Chinese firm EHang reached an important milestone. They flew a completely unmanned, autonomous passenger drone on its...

05.01.2024 10

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Tuberculosis kills more people than malaria or HIV. Why haven’t we found a vaccine?

Few forces have killed off talented people before their time with quite the effectiveness of tuberculosis. There’s Chekhov, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka,...

13.12.2023 5

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