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Monday, January 26, 2026 10:35 AM ET

UPI - Opinion

Voices - How the polar vortex, warm ocean intensified major U.S. winter storm - A severe winter storm that brought freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. was intensified by the polar vortex and warm ocean.

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Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You're not alone

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The cost of equity in Latin America: Models and embedded risks

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Trump takes us for a journey through Alice's looking glass

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Spirituality and the 'banality of good?' -- We appear to be living through a crisis of systemic coherence: A widening gap has opened between what is affirmed and what is practiced.

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Aid groups working to compensate for loss of USAID funding -- A pair of NGO experts examine the effect of USAID's demise on NGOs, and what strategies they are using to stay afloat after the loss of funds.

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Supreme Court likely to reject limits on concealed carry -- A University of Tennessee researcher predicts the Supreme Court will reject limits on concealed carry but uphold bans on gun possession by drug users.

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Trump and his one-day war -- Congress and the Supreme Court have become constitutional vestiges in which Trump has amassed the greatest power of any president in U.S. history.

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Reflections on U.S. action in Venezuela -- The capture of Nicholas Maduro and subsequent U.S. actions illustrate the capabilities of both "hard power" and "soft power," as well as their limits.

6 days ago

Why is the 2025-26 flu season hitting so hard? A doctor explains -- An emergency room physician describes why the 2025-26 flu season is hitting hard while doctor's visits for flu-like symptoms are at a 30-year high.

10 days ago

Iran's unrest and the quest for Korean freedom -- The Korean people in the North live under an even more totalitarian system than Iran. They endure information starvation and internal surveillance.

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The cost of capital in Latin America: a structural barrier to growth -- Economic growth in Latin America is often constrained not by lack of ideas, but by the high price of the capital required to finance them.

12 days ago

Digital society: State sovereignty and human rights -- A Chilean scholar argues sovereignty must adapt to the realities of the digital age, balancing state autonomy with the protection of human rights.

12 days ago

What can be done about Grok's 'nudified' images of women and minors? -- A legal scholar examines the causes -- and potential consequences -- of X's Grok AI creating nonconsensual sexualized images of real people.

13 days ago

ICE profiling mirrors treatment of Japanese Americans in World War II -- Parallels are being drawn between the attacks on Latinos today and the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

14 days ago

Venezuelan vicissitudes: three big questions -- After veiled warnings followed by threats and military actions to intimidate Nikolas Maduro, Donald Trump finally pressed the presidential finger on the button.

14 days ago

Rivalry and relations between the United States and China -- The evolving rivalry between the United States and the People's Republic of China is reshaping the international order in the 21st century.

16 days ago

How Maduro's capture went down -- a military strategist explains -- A military strategist and former Latin America policy advisor breaks down what is known about the raid on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

17 days ago

Africa's oldest-known cremation raises a historical mystery -- The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in such a visible way?

18 days ago

Is Trump channeling JFK? -- Of all the extraordinary events of 2025, one of the most amazing and inexplicable is why Donald Trump seems to be channeling John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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