Future Food
Scientists Hack Photosynthesis to Help Feed the Planet

Researchers discovered a way to increase photosynthetic efficiency—and plant growth—by 15 percent.

Deal or No Deal
What Does Israel Want from a Trump Administration on Iran?

Maybe the nuke deal survives after all.

Immigration after 2016
Sessions Nomination Shows How Trump Will Approach Immigration as POTUS

Sessions, the Senate’s leading immigration hawk, to become the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

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self-congratulation
“Fake News” Is the New “Bregret”

The self-destructive tendency of elites to chalk up ballot box defeats to voter ignorance.

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Ad Men
Selling the Good News

Two television dramas about the advertising business—one recent and the other from the 1980s—show us how much American society has changed.

South China Sea on a Boil
Vietnam Builds Its Own Runway in South China Sea

Vietnam tries to give China a taste of its own medicine.

Shake Rattle and Oil
Fracking Linked to Canadian Earthquakes

Scientists have drawn a connection between hydraulic fracturing and increased seismicity in Alberta.

Missile Diplomacy
Trump’s THAAD Dilemma

Beijing will be closely watching to see if Trump will go through with the anti-missile system in South Korea.

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The Trumpquake
Will Trump’s Infrastructure Bill Be a Blue Model Boondoggle?

Donald Trump’s promise to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding U.S. infrastructure may create unusual political dynamics on Capitol Hill.

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2017
Trump: A World Deconstructed?

If the 45th President makes good on his campaign promises, the 46th President will be the one called upon to “make America great again.”

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