Perspectives

  • The Inequality of Climate Change

    Annie Lowrey

    November 12, 2013

    Typhoon Haiyan has left at least 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines. And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the world’s poorest the hardest.

  • Argentines Link Health Problems to Agrochemicals

    Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

    October 20, 2013

    Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.

  • Billy Graham Sounds Alarm for Second Coming

    Troy Anderson

    October 20, 2013

    Just as Noah did in ancient times, world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham is sounding the alarm that the Second Coming is “near” and signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.”

  • How Factory Farms May Be Killing Us

    Tara Lohan

    September 17, 2013

    Antibiotics revolutionized medicine in the 1940s, saving millions of lives over the last 70 years. But during that time bacteria have evolved to become resistant to certain antibiotics. The more antibiotics we use, the quicker resistance builds up. This has deadly repercussions.

  • How Big Data is Changing the World

    Jane Wakefield

    August 27, 2013

    Back in 2010 Google chief executive Eric Schmidt noted that the amount of data collected since the dawn of humanity until 2003 was the equivalent to the volume we now produce every two days.

  • N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

    Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson and Scott Shane

    September 5, 2013

    The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.