<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>My Paper</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/</link><description>Your paper, your pace.</description><item><title>Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/science/wounaan-indigenous-people-have-opposed-illegal-rosewood-logging-and-ce/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/science/wounaan-indigenous-people-have-opposed-illegal-rosewood-logging-and-ce/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>We highlight ways to celebrate Wounaan wisdom, joy, beauty and resistance while discussing centuries of taking from Indigenous communities.</description></item><item><title>Why the Spokane wildfires became so catastrophic</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/science/why-the-spokane-wildfires-became-so-catastrophic/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/science/why-the-spokane-wildfires-became-so-catastrophic/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Extreme fire conditions converged in suburban neighborhoods built into the forests, shrubland and grasslands and quickly spread.</description></item><item><title>Why Relationships Fail: It's Rarely the Reason You Think</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/relationships/why-relationships-fail/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/relationships/why-relationships-fail/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>The complaint that ends a relationship is almost never the reason it ended — here's how to find the one underneath it.</description></item><item><title>Why Inflation Happens — and Why Prices Almost Never Go Back Down</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/business/why-inflation-happens/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/business/why-inflation-happens/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Inflation isn't one thing with one cause — here's the actual mechanism, why a slower rate doesn't mean cheaper prices, and why economists want some of it.</description></item><item><title>Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/why-christopher-nolan-turned-circe-into-a-vindictive-witch/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/why-christopher-nolan-turned-circe-into-a-vindictive-witch/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.</description></item><item><title>Why are some animals considered ‘pests’? It comes down to culture and convenience</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/why-are-some-animals-considered-pests-it-comes-down-to-culture-and-con/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/why-are-some-animals-considered-pests-it-comes-down-to-culture-and-con/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Calling an animal a ‘pest’ can sometimes cause more harm to people than the animal itself.</description></item><item><title>Why Arbaeen – the Shiite Muslim pilgrimage of mourning – has a deep significance that brings millions to Iraq each year</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/why-arbaeen-the-shiite-muslim-pilgrimage-of-mourning-has-a-deep-signif/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/why-arbaeen-the-shiite-muslim-pilgrimage-of-mourning-has-a-deep-signif/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Each year, millions of Shiite Muslims walk to Karbala to honor Husayn, the prophet’s grandson, whose death continues to shape their faith.</description></item><item><title>Whose conservation, whose development? The Maasai struggle over land in northern Tanzania</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/world/whose-conservation-whose-development-the-maasai-struggle-over-land-in-/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/world/whose-conservation-whose-development-the-maasai-struggle-over-land-in-/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Conservation has become a tool for “green grabbing”: The taking of community land in the name of environmental protection while opening space for tourism, hunting, and investment interests.</description></item><item><title>White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/tech/white-house-plan-for-a-golden-age-of-science-ignores-the-structures-th/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/tech/white-house-plan-for-a-golden-age-of-science-ignores-the-structures-th/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.</description></item><item><title>When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/tech/when-expressive-humanoid-robots-are-awkward-people-become-wary-new-bra/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/tech/when-expressive-humanoid-robots-are-awkward-people-become-wary-new-bra/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>People who interact with expressive robots that make mistakes react with suspicion rather than seeing the bots as malfunctioning machines.</description></item><item><title>When Chinese parents outsource control over their adult children</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/world/when-chinese-parents-outsource-control-over-their-adult-children/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/world/when-chinese-parents-outsource-control-over-their-adult-children/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>China's rebranded “internet addiction” industry now helps families confine legally independent adult children, exposing how parental coercion survives through private institutions and weak enforcement</description></item><item><title>What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/what-the-panic-over-gen-zs-reading-habits-gets-wrong/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/what-the-panic-over-gen-zs-reading-habits-gets-wrong/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Despite dire warnings of a ‘postliterate’ generation, data suggests Gen Z is still reading – just in ways many traditional studies fail to capture.</description></item><item><title>What is Falun Gong and why does the Chinese Communist Party want to suppress it?</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/what-is-falun-gong-and-why-does-the-chinese-communist-party-want-to-su/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/what-is-falun-gong-and-why-does-the-chinese-communist-party-want-to-su/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>An anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners explains the movement’s beliefs and why its followers continue to resist the Chinese government.</description></item><item><title>What is emotional regulation? A child psychologist explains</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/health/what-is-emotional-regulation-a-child-psychologist-explains/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/health/what-is-emotional-regulation-a-child-psychologist-explains/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>The aim isn’t to get rid of difficult feelings, but to find ways of managing them effectively.</description></item><item><title>What does home mean for people with no single territory connecting them?</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/world/what-does-home-mean-for-people-with-no-single-territory-connecting-the/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/world/what-does-home-mean-for-people-with-no-single-territory-connecting-the/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>In this collaborative article, Global Voices contributors explore these two stories of statelessness, and reveal how minority communities are redefining nationhood, loyalty, and identity across the re</description></item><item><title>What critics of college athletes making money get wrong about name, image and likeness policies</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/parenting/what-critics-of-college-athletes-making-money-get-wrong-about-name-ima/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/parenting/what-critics-of-college-athletes-making-money-get-wrong-about-name-ima/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Since college athletes were allowed to sign branding deals in 2021, the debate has continued over whether letting students make money off their names is a good thing.</description></item><item><title>What a western Pennsylvania ’90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/what-a-western-pennsylvania-90s-style-pizza-hut-reveals-about-nostalgi/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/what-a-western-pennsylvania-90s-style-pizza-hut-reveals-about-nostalgi/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.</description></item><item><title>Two injections a year: the HIV shot has started arriving, and the hard part is the queue</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/goodnews/twice-yearly-hiv-injection-reaches-africa/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/goodnews/twice-yearly-hiv-injection-reaches-africa/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Nine African countries have now given 191,620 doses of lenacapavir — a drug that stops HIV by jamming the virus's protein shell — but supply, not science, is the limit.</description></item><item><title>Trump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/trumps-slapdash-reflecting-pool-renovations-stand-in-stark-contrast-to/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/trumps-slapdash-reflecting-pool-renovations-stand-in-stark-contrast-to/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>The construction of the pool reflected a national ambition to build something unifying and enduring. The rushed renovation and political fallout of 2026 reveal how much that civic vision has changed.</description></item><item><title>Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/science/trump-administration-moves-to-block-public-from-enforcing-environmenta/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/science/trump-administration-moves-to-block-public-from-enforcing-environmenta/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>For decades, regular citizens and advocacy groups have filed suits that forced companies and the federal government to clean up the environment. Trump officials have moved to limit that power.</description></item><item><title>Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/health/trump-administration-is-withholding-more-than-1b-in-medicaid-funds-fro/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/health/trump-administration-is-withholding-more-than-1b-in-medicaid-funds-fro/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.</description></item><item><title>The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-us-has-acknowledged-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-as-sacred-for-o/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-us-has-acknowledged-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-as-sacred-for-o/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.</description></item><item><title>The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/health/the-typical-gig-worker-is-changing-and-struggling-more-than-ever-to-ma/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/health/the-typical-gig-worker-is-changing-and-struggling-more-than-ever-to-ma/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.</description></item><item><title>The signal we cannot ignore: What the LONDA 2025 report reveals about Africa’s digital rights</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/world/the-signal-we-cannot-ignore-what-the-londa-2025-report-reveals-about-a/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/world/the-signal-we-cannot-ignore-what-the-londa-2025-report-reveals-about-a/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>The digital landscape is becoming increasingly dangerous for vulnerable groups. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is a growing epidemic that most legal frameworks fail to address adequately</description></item><item><title>‘The Odyssey’ is a striking portrait of the psychological wounds that can emerge when people violate their deepest values</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/the-odyssey-is-a-striking-portrait-of-the-psychological-wounds-that-ca/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/culture/the-odyssey-is-a-striking-portrait-of-the-psychological-wounds-that-ca/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Christopher Nolan turns Homer’s legendary warrior into a case study of moral injury, a condition that often appears in war veterans who struggle to forgive themselves.</description></item><item><title>The moral paradox of extreme wealth: Why people oppose it yet are reluctant to take steps to reduce it</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-moral-paradox-of-extreme-wealth-why-people-oppose-it-yet-are-reluc/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-moral-paradox-of-extreme-wealth-why-people-oppose-it-yet-are-reluc/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Extreme inequality is commonplace, so why do people accept it?</description></item><item><title>The financial dilemma that wound up helping US churches thrive</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/parenting/the-financial-dilemma-that-wound-up-helping-us-churches-thrive/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/parenting/the-financial-dilemma-that-wound-up-helping-us-churches-thrive/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>American churches could not rely on the state for financial support. Private philanthropy helped them survive – and shaped the country’s religious diversity today.</description></item><item><title>The enduring legacy of Kashmir’s poet-saints who built bridges between faiths</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-enduring-legacy-of-kashmirs-poet-saints-who-built-bridges-between-/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-enduring-legacy-of-kashmirs-poet-saints-who-built-bridges-between-/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Kashmir’s history as a center of learning and the arts for Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims offers another way of understanding the region – one shaped by centuries of religious coexistence.</description></item><item><title>The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-catholic-principle-guiding-popes-through-tech-upheavals-from-the-i/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/questions/the-catholic-principle-guiding-popes-through-tech-upheavals-from-the-i/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Pope Leo is one of many popes to respond to technological change by drawing on a Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity.’</description></item><item><title>The anatomy of erasure: Indigenous Assyrian women and forgotten genocide</title><link>https://mypaper.news/en/world/the-anatomy-of-erasure-indigenous-assyrian-women-and-forgotten-genocid/</link><guid>https://mypaper.news/en/world/the-anatomy-of-erasure-indigenous-assyrian-women-and-forgotten-genocid/</guid><pubDate>2026-08-10</pubDate><description>Indigenous Assyrian women were erased three times: first as Assyrians, then through sexual violence, finally by history itself. The machinery that made them disappear is still running.</description></item></channel></rss>