There is a version of this story everyone already knows. A shuttle lifts off on a cold Florida morning. Seventy-three seconds later, in front of a nation watching on classroom television sets, it comes apart in the sky. That version… Continue Reading →
His surname means destruction in Hindi. ‘Tabahi’. That’s the name he goes by on social media, the name people know him by, the name that spread across the internet this year attached to videos of a young man standing knee-deep… Continue Reading →
Summer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a group of kids at the Woonsocket Motor Inn had a problem. Two new friends had just moved into the motel. And unlike everyone else in the friend group, they didn’t have bikes. No… Continue Reading →
On October 27, 1962, the world came closest to nuclear war not in a situation room in Washington, not in the Kremlin, and not at any summit table. It came closest in the belly of a Soviet submarine, somewhere in… Continue Reading →
On the morning of August 10, 2026, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, the strongest to hit the country in a decade. At least 181 people were killed and more than 2,595 injured. More than 1,500 homes were damaged… Continue Reading →
Last week I had a genuinely fine day. Nothing broke, nobody was upset with me, no inbox disaster, no “we need to talk” text. And by 6pm I caught myself thinking, quite seriously, “okay, what am I forgetting.” Nothing. I… Continue Reading →
It was a Tuesday in Bengaluru, and Yana was decorating a cake. She was pressing candles into the icing – the number 40, two candles shaped like digits- and her young daughter was watching from nearby, fidgeting with the particular… Continue Reading →
Walk into almost any kitchen today and you’ll find it sitting in a jar, costing next to nothing, waiting to be grated over a dessert without a second thought. Four hundred years ago, the same object was worth risking a… Continue Reading →
From the moment Jordan Wilmore started growing, the advice was consistent. You’re 7 foot 3. You should play basketball. You could make millions. Why would you want to do anything else? He heard it his whole life. From coaches, from… Continue Reading →
Somewhere around the 12th century BCE, a group of workers in a village near the Valley of the Kings put down their tools and walked away. There were no weapons. No riot. No march on the palace. They simply stopped… Continue Reading →
Note: This Kindness Report is a little different from the usual ones. It’s not one story – it’s many. And it happened right here in India, this week, in a city some of us call home. For nearly two months,… Continue Reading →
Every morning, before most of his neighbors had finished their first cup of coffee, a four-year-old boy named Roman was already at the door. Waiting. Watching. Ready. The garbage truck would rumble past and Roman waved. An Amazon driver slowed… Continue Reading →
On the evening of November 2, 1988, the entire internet was roughly 60,000 computers. Not 60,000 in one country. Not 60,000 in one industry. That was the whole thing – university labs, military research sites, a handful of government offices,… Continue Reading →
Debbie’s lawn had been growing out of control for a while. That much was visible from the street. But what wasn’t visible (what you couldn’t know just by driving past) was everything else that had piled up alongside the grass…. Continue Reading →
Somewhere in the 17th century, a man walked out of Mecca with coffee seeds hidden in his clothing.He probably didn’t think of himself as someone changing the world. He was a pilgrim going home. But what he carried (if the… Continue Reading →
The final whistle blew on a 2-2 draw between Japan and the Netherlands at Dallas Stadium. Group F, opening week of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This is the kind of result that leaves you a little deflated either way,… Continue Reading →