M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped Conquer Famine in India, Dies at 98
Called the father of India’s Green Revolution, he served on agencies and boards around the world and developed a system of ecologically safe food production.
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Democracy May Be Struggling but the Fight Is Far From Over
The war between Russia and Ukraine may be an extreme example of the fight over which form of government works best for its citizens, but there are others.
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One View: Behind China-U.S. Tensions Are Misunderstandings, Author Says
In an interview, the economist Keyu Jin says much of the world is asking the wrong questions — and so is drawing outdated conclusions.
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The Ghost in the Mirror
In spooky stories by Ben Hatke, Remy Lai and the team of Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, the secrets of the undead lead perilously close to home.
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A Lush Novel at the Nexus of Food, Pleasure, Wealth and Catastrophe
In C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich in the Italian Alps, one of the last places on Earth where crops still grow.
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The Turtle Mothers Have Come Ashore to Ask About an Unpaid Debt
Each summer I teach at the Cranberry Lake Biological Station, a remote wilderness field school in the Adirondacks. It is a community of scientists and students, surrounded by rich forests and glittering lakes, where bears and loons are our neighbors …
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Ukraine’s Fight Is the World’s, Zelensky Tells U.N. Assembly
Painting Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a nation that seeks to dominate others, President Volodymyr Zelensky cast his appeal for broad support as a matter of global security.
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Tuesday Briefing
Changes in the Ukrainian defense ministry.
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Monday Briefing
The espionage shadow war by China and the U.S.
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The Grand Museums of the World Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them.
The news that roughly 2,000 objects, dating from antiquity to the 19th century, have disappeared over a decade from the vast storerooms of the British Museum — a fact the museum acknowledged a few weeks ago — should be enough to endanger the job …
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