Why We’re Suing the L.A. Metro

66 million years ago, the dinosaurs died – but ants thrived, and scientists just figured out why

Brickbat: Wrong Door

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: October 7, 1982

The Replication Crisis in Medicine

How An Accidental Virus Release Triggered 1977’s “Russian Flu”

The "Application for an Extension and the Querulous Opposition Continue the Path of Bikeshedding or … Parkinson's Law of Triviality"

Ask Jeeves

A Visit to a Gun Store Shouldn't Put You on a Government List

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

How to Lose a Trade War

US SENDING THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND 10,000 MORE TROOPS TO GULF—WHAT IS THE RISK OF A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY IRAN?

The Making of the Democratic Insurgency

Your Immune System Ages in Two Big Bursts

A New (Fiscal) Year’s Resolution

Magic mushroom compound may prevent chemotherapy pain