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The embattled witnesses

2026-05-26 18:00:00

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The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

- by Alvina Hoffmann

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This is my island

2026-05-25 18:01:00

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Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it

- by Aeon Video

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Can ecosystems malfunction?

2026-05-25 18:00:00

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We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts

- by John Drake

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Being small

2026-05-22 18:00:00

A child on scooter in pink gear with adult walking behind on suburban pavement lined with houses in winter.

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace

- by Tom Wooldridge

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Aloha ʻāina

2026-05-21 18:01:00

Photo of a person paddling on a canoe with a rainbow, palm trees and wind turbines visible in the background on a cloudy day.

It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people

- by Aeon Video

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Make immigration boring

2026-05-21 18:00:00

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The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs

- by Alan Manning

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