John Cornyn Lost With His Boots Off

He appeared to be a pauper, but John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed was quite successful, owning 1,200 acres across three states

The Gangster Logic of Trump’s Tariff Wars

Can ecosystems malfunction?

Kevin Warsh Could Be the Best Thing for Fed Independence

Magnifica Humanitas

Bridging real human movement with digital technology

Steve Descano’s Record Can’t Hide in the Dark Anymore

Today in Supreme Court History: May 26, 1868

The False Promise of “Kin-First” Foster Care

How AIs See Our World

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives

Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?

Open Thread

Open Thread

Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.

Who We Are: On Therapy (with Abigail Shrier)

MIT science writing students collaborate with The Associated Press

The Real Threat to Fed Independence

FBI Director Kash Patel's Girlfriend's Defamation Suit Over Allegations She Was Israeli Spy Can Go Forward