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Saturday, May 23, 2026 4:23 PM ET

UPI - Opinion

Voices - Rice feeds billions -- but its climate change role is growing - From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, rice underpins daily meals for billions of people.

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North Korean women, capitalist feminism and human security

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Central America's integration test is decision-making

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Japan and Australia: A quasi-alliance comes of age

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Peru's F-16 dispute: defense ties depend on politics, not just weapons -- Peru's decision to move forward with the purchase of U.S.-made F-16 fighter aircraft is more than a military procurement story.

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What Paraguay should do: Stay open to investment, but not blindly open -- Paraguay is entering a period in which infrastructure, energy and digital investment will increasingly determine its economic future.

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South Korea's nuclear sub talks with Washington have gone missing -- A plan to build Korean nuclear submarines at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania appears to be in limbi, with no progress toward an agreement

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Humanities and the crisis of instrumental reason -- Aa landmark UNESCO report released this month finds that only one in five universities worldwide has a formal policy on artificial intelligence.

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Can American democracy survive the Internet age? -- The Internet has became the message and the messenger. Today, Trump has Truth Social, where he can make the most outrageous and incendiary statements.

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Hurricane forecasts have improved, but federal cuts threaten NOAA -- Americans rely on accurate forecasts when hurricanes might be developing to know when to stock up on supplies, prepare for power outages or evacuate.

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Dark patterns on the Web are designed to manipulate you -- Website designs that try to change your behavior cross a line when they outright deceive, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher says.

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Fungal disease, climate change threaten Colorado's prized peaches -- In western Colorado, home to the treasured Palisade peach, cytospora canker is one of the most consequential fungal diseases faced by growers.

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Panama's free-enterprise opportunity -- Renewed international debate over the Panama Canal has revealed something deeper than a mere sovereignty dispute.

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The oddest couple: Donnie and Vlad -- Today, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in the irony of all ironies, are the oddest couple, drawn together by classic strategic blunders and failures.

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Digital power and the new Orwellian temptation -- When Meta announced it would end third-party fact-checking and move toward a community notes model, Brazilian authorities demanded clarification.

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Gerrymandering in the South will likely continue to consider race -- Why political gerrymandering in the South will likely continue to consider voters' race despite a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions -- AI algorithms such as facial recognition systems produce probabilities, not facts, which can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions.

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A Supreme Court ruling failed to curb racial bias in jury selection -- In 1986, the Supreme Court barred prosecutors from striking jurors solely because of race, but the landmark case has failed to stop racial bias.

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Why corrosive capital is dangerous: It distorts the state -- Most discussions of problematic investment focus on economics: an overpriced asset, a weak contract, a procurement process that appears tilted.

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How online hate groups sustain their messages -- Studying the types of messages hate groups spew online helps researchers understand the groups' persistence.

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