Why North Korea dumped trash on South Korea

North Korea’s decision to drop literal trash across its southern border has led South Korea to weigh pulling out of a 2018 deal the two had made to ease military tensions.  In the last week, North Korea has deployed hundreds of trash balloons containing everything from used toilet paper to cigarette butts, a move it […]

8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them

Right now, something magical is underway across vast stretches of the eastern US: The soil is beginning to erupt with trillions of periodical cicadas that have been growing underground for either 13 or 17 years, waiting for this exact moment to crawl out of the Earth together.  This particular burst of life is incredibly rare. […]

Is a ceasefire in Gaza actually close?

President Joe Biden announced a ceasefire proposal to end Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday that he said was devised by Israel, urging Hamas to accept it and Israel not to renege.  But what has followed in the days since is a series of conflicting statements from Israel and the Biden administration, leaving the state […]

You can help reverse the overdose epidemic

The fatal overdose epidemic in the US, which began in the ’90s with increased overdoses of prescription opioids, finally looked like it was starting to take a turn in 2018. But then the Covid pandemic hit, and amid increased isolation during lockdowns, fatal drug overdoses in the US skyrocketed, crossing 100,000 fatalities in a single […]