This Founding Father Died in Disgrace. But He Can’t Be Forgotten.

Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge"

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how much it misses it

“We can’t ship goods without functioning ports”

Over 100,000 Kids Have Died Due to Greenpeace Blocking Genetically Enhanced Rice, New Calculation Shows

The Model for Botticelli’s Venus Died at 23

Who Can't Afford Food?

Trauma creep

Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

Neanderthal 1

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

Founding Gift: John Peter Zenger And The Declaration Of Independence

Comic: It's America's Founding Fake News Terrorist, Samuel Adams

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Open Thread

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point