What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

Open Thread

Indiana Ban on "Instruction" "on Human Sexuality" in Pre-K to Third Grade Upheld by Seventh Circuit

DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Secretly Funding Extremists

No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression

Stephanie Barclay on "The Emergency Docket's Mistaken Birthday"

What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

Globalization Made Howard Lutnick a Billionaire. Now He's Railing Against It as Trump's Commerce Chief.

Thursday Poem

We Don’t Need a Trial to Fight Kids’ Social Media Addiction

The Rise And Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

What Makes America Strong?

The Students Who Believe Practice Makes Perfect Get Pretty Perfect Grades

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

Donald Trump Makes the Case for Decentralized Control of Elections Great Again

Markwayne Mullin's History of Condoning Murder and Resisting Transparency Makes Him Ill-Suited To Run DHS

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

Ghosts, Love, And The Search For Readers, Part 2: A Continuing Conversation With Writer Kipling Knox

Love, Obsession and Longing: What Science Reveals About the Many Facets of Desire