The Big Story
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Josh Johnson Has Become the Funniest Guy on the Internet. That Is Not a Joke
Now 34, Johnson was raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. He kick-started his stand-up career in Chicago, then got his first break…
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After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry
Mark Cuban was confident he wouldn’t be recognized in Boston Common. This was early June, and it happened to be…
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Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure…
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Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results
Here’s a flash of Antony J. Blinken’s turn as US secretary of state: In his first year, he navigated America’s…
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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It
Moqadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he’d left his home on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa,…
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She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax
By the time I arrive in Lezay my clothes are damp with sweat, my head foggy. I find hundreds of…
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The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe
In the skies over Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, pilot Mark Newman waits for the signal. When it…
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How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
Off the southwest tip of Iceland, you’ll find what’s often called a “marginal” body of water. This part of the…
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The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
You wake up on Election Day and unlock your phone to a shaky video of your state capitol. In the…
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For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley
When Jon M. Chu enters the restaurant, I barely notice him. He looks like a regular customer here for an…
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