Most novels bore before they thrill. A turning point – the volta – marks the moment ennui becomes excitement

Cells pulse together as they grow — and malignant cells pulse the longest

Originalism’s Better Meaning

How Karoline Leavitt Changed the White House Press Room

Robert Reich on Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan

How to Destroy a State, in Five Easy Steps

AOC Knows a Lemon When She Sees One

New telescope reveals a missing link in the cosmic recycling of matter

Today in Supreme Court History: August 12, 1795

Trump Administration Claims Executive Privilege Over White House Conversations With Private Advisers 

What You Need to Know About the Social Media 'Addiction' Trial Starting This Week

Why do cats look almost exactly the same as they did millions of years ago, while dogs have exploded into hundreds of wildly different shapes?

How Flock Camera Defenders Are Missing the Point

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

How did Heidegger, married and 35, explain his affair with 18-year old Hannah Arendt? “The demonic has seized me”

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Today in Supreme Court History: August 8, 2009

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

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Why I Quit the Tenure Track

Sullivan Revisited