Illustrations by Holly Stapleton It was March when I received the news that Harold had died in one of his caves. I hadn’t expected him to still be doing fieldwork...

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China isn’t ready to be the world’s next superpower: That’s one thing the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran in June made abundantly clear. The country that was perhaps...

I n 2006, Ambassador Mark Dybul, then the United States global AIDS coordinator, visited an orphanage run by the Daughters of Charity in Ethiopia. It was a sanctuary for more...

The bus smashed into him last month, when he was crossing the street with his wheelchair. By the time he made it to the public hospital in California where I...

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