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In Lebanon a small wheat harvest sparks a bigger idea

In 2021, a community of farmers who sell fresh produce at a Sunday market on the grounds of a religious school in the Badaro...

No strikes, no coffee breaks: the world installed industrial robots

603,300. That’s how many industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2025. According to the World Robotics annual report, China deployed around 59% of total...

Germany’s moral crusade has run into the AfD

After the political earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured 43.8% of the vote, the reaction of the mainstream media followed...

The endless reinvention of junk food

In the spring of 2014, the most curious invitation came my way. Nestlé, the processed food giant, asked me to address a gathering of...

The protein shaker has left the gym

To understand one of the most interesting shifts in Western diets, it is enough to look at a protein shaker. For decades, protein powder...

Saving memory, saving community: a Japanese village’s story

Twenty-five years ago, I started an NGO in a remote corner of Joetsu in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The area is known as the Kuwadori...

How clowns defeated hate and what it teaches us about fighting Trump

In May 2007, word spread through Knoxville, Tennessee: white supremacists, including members of the KKK, were converging on the city for a “white power”...

The more we pay for land, the less it may be worth

We have a problem with soil: we look at it, but we rarely see it. We see a field, a road, a meadow, a...

A small Italian city, a billionaire family and a new vision of football

On the eve of Como’s first-ever Champions League match, President Mirwan Suwarso made a gesture that seems straight out of a novel about the...