The Fed Can't Fight Inflation Alone. Will Congress Do Its Part?

It’s Time to Reconsider Inflation Targeting

Ezra Klein: Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About ‘The End of History’

A Vision of a Future Where Machines Fight Wars

How Did the Nation Get Its Name? Other Suggestions Included the United Colonies, Columbia and the United States of Alleghania

FDA launches pilot program to speed up sluggish phase 1 trials

Warning Notice to Man Who Sent Critical E-Mail to ICE Acting Director Likely Violated First Amendment

Why collect stamps? Explanations include nostalgia, anal-retentiveness, erotic frustration, and the desire to escape into a remote, private world

Open Thread

Animal eye

A New Report Claims High-Tax States Like New York Are “Millionaire Friendly”

Bernie Sanders aims to ban AI ‘superintelligence.’ But experts can’t agree on what the term means

Supreme Court Blocks Missouri's Messy, Trump-Backed Gerrymandering Fight

Why the Discovery of the First Short-Tailed Tsushima Leopard Cat Worried Researchers

Libel Suit Against Book Publisher by Doctor Accused of Performing Unnecessary Gynecological Procedures on Immigration Detainees Can Go Forward

Anita Brookner: Art and Life

Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis 

Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His savagery reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying

Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — lasting under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era

A Civil War, A Bestseller, And The Trial That Divided France

Can the Feds Ban You From Making Liquor in Your Own Home?