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Opinion

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, how to face a new era of global catastrophic risks

By Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Spy Booth Banksy street art

Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Cellphone held in Black woman's hands

How citizen groups are fighting internet disinformation and racial discord

By Angela R. Pashayan | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

artist's rendition of polio

Polio is back. Here’s what to do about it.

By Kathleen E. Bachynski | Opinion, Science Denial

Russian and Iranian foreign ministers meet in Moscow

A Russian perspective on Iran’s final offer for a nuclear deal

By Adlan Margoev | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Campaigner holding up a copy of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

What’s next for the nuclear ban treaty?

By Ruth Rohde | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

power plant reflected in water at night

The Supreme Court hasn’t killed the Biden administration’s climate agenda, but its latest decision casts a shadow

By Max Sarinsky | Climate Change, Opinion

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

The US Supreme Court building.

The Supreme Court’s EPA decision heralds a broad assault on democracy

By Adam Sobel | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Exterior of Supreme Court building.

After Roe’s overturn: the abortion surveillance state

By Carrie N. Baker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

A vampire bat colony.

As self-spreading vaccine technology moves forward, dialogue on its risks should follow

By Jonas Sandbrink | Biosecurity, Opinion

Food giants can help put alternative meats on everyone’s table

By Emma Ignaszewski | Climate Change, Opinion