Members of the Parliament applaud Viktor Orban after voting him in on May 16 as the prime minister of Hungary, for a fourth consecutive term.
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One Good Thing: Watching the cherry blossoms in the end times
A visitor taking pictures of blooming cherry trees at a farm of the Flower Association of Japan in Yuki, northeastern Ibaraki prefecture. | Philip Fong/AFP
Why must we pay to have a slightly less miserable time at the airport?
Travelers wait in a long queue at the security checkpoint of Orlando International Airport the day before the Thanksgiving holiday on November 24, 2021. |
The future of 911 is a little bit creepy
Phonemakers and carriers are developing new technologies that are meant to improve emergency response. | Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images As the 911 system adapts
The developing Covid crisis in Beijing, explained
An ambulance enters a fenced residential area under lockdown due to Covid-19 restrictions in Beijing, on May 17, 2022. | Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
5 ways abortion bans could hurt women in the workforce
The end of Roe v. Wade will hurt women in many ways. | Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe via Getty Images How criminalizing abortion affects women
Why Germany is hooked on Russian gas
How Germany got stuck paying for Russia’s war. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has sanctioned much of Russia’s economy, but Russia’s natural gas
Are microloans encouraging women to join risky multilevel marketing schemes?
The corporate headquarters of Herbalife, a multilevel marketing company some women join through Grameen America’s microloans program. | Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you
Kendrick Lamar’s Auntie Diaries is a clumsy attempt at trans acceptance
Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime at Super Bowl LVI in February 2022, in Inglewood, California. | Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Why the
The air conditioning paradox
A woman fans her child with a sheet of paper as a fan sits idle amid a power outage during a heat wave in Jacobabad,