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UPI - Opinion

Judi Dench, Brian May attend Chelsea Flower Show in London

3 days ago

Voices - Central America's integration test is decision-making - May 21 (UPI) -- Central America does not suffer from a lack of regional challenges. It suffers from a shortage of regional decisions.

19 hours ago

Japan and Australia: A quasi-alliance comes of age

19 hours ago

Peru's F-16 dispute: defense ties depend on politics, not just weapons

20 hours ago

What Paraguay should do: Stay open to investment, but not blindly open

20 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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.

20 hours ago

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.

20 hours ago

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.

20 hours ago

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.

1 day ago

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.

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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.

2 days ago

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.

3 days ago

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.

6 days ago

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.

7 days ago

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.

8 days ago

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.

10 days ago

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

11 days ago

What about Iran's plutonium? -- If the fear is that Iran can or will build a nuclear weapon, destroying or neutralizing its supply of enriched uranium is only a partial solution.

11 days ago

China's ocean stewardship narrative faces a credibility test -- China's bid to position itself as a global ocean steward is entering a critical test -- not in conference halls or treaty negotiations, but at sea.

13 days ago