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President Trump speaking after the United States carried out a missile attack in Syria on Thursday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
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A Syrian child receives treatment following a suspected toxic gas attack earlier this week.Credit Mohamed Al-Bakour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Trump Was Right to Strike Syria
President Trump’s air strikes against Syria were of dubious legality. They were hypocritical. They may have had political motivations. But most of all, they were right. I’m deeply suspicious of Trump’s policies and competence, but this is a case where he is right and...Caption:
A laboratory researcher in a file photo. REUTERS/Sebastian Derungs
How Biased Is Science, Really?
Researchers have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately. In the midst of increasing scrutiny into the world of how academic papers are published a narrative has crystallized that the academic world is broken and must be fixed. Claims of widespread publication bias...Caption:
Cherry blossoms in early bloom, in Washington. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times
When is politics like a tree?
If you study and write about happiness as I do, you become attuned to patterns. For instance, when I walk into a workplace, I can usually tell, based on my first few conversations, if the environment is happy or not. And in the past couple of years, I have noticed a...Caption:
Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains. (Thomas Pesquet/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)