Tehran is running out of water.  Rationing has begun in Iran’s capital city, with some of the approximately 10 million residents experiencing “nightly pressure cuts”  between midnight and 5 am. The entire country is in an unprecedented drought, facing its driest — and hottest — autumn in nearly 60 years. Tehran has received no rain […]

Gen Z was born too late.  By the 2020s, the boomers had already bought up all the houses, while the millennials had commandeered the good careers. Zoomers have, therefore, been condemned to hovels in irradiated outlying districts and dead-end internships where they train the AI that will replace them.  What piddling wages the zoomer ekes […]

On Monday, the UN Security Council approved a US-drafted plan that calls for an international security force and that at least keeps the door open for eventual Palestinian statehood. But for the future of the tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the most important events may be happening not in New York, but below the […]

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, Madagascar — The flames were close. Moving like lava across the rolling hills, just a few miles away, a wildfire lit up the night sky with orange smoke. I watched the fire from the edge of a dense forest in central Madagascar, a few hours northwest of Antananarivo, the country’s capital. It’s a special […]

Thanksgiving is arguably one of the yummiest celebrations in the US and one where you’re expected to be home for the holidays. But, what are your options when going home isn’t one? In recent decades, Friendsgiving has emerged as the go-to choice as an additional event or complete alternative to Thanksgiving.  It can be tough […]