Politicians Want To Avoid Reforming Social Security and Medicare. You Will Pay the Price.

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Harriet Tubman

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage

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"The Quality of Counsel's Filings Further Deteriorated"

Wayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Take on American Art

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Words Without Consequence

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

A Social Security Off-Ramp?

British Politicians Are Still Capable of Shame. Americans Aren’t.

What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction

Tennessee Appeals Court Rejects Argument That Covenant Shooter Manifesto Must Remain Concealed to Avoid Copycats

Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026

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David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

Politicians Say AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Costs. That's Not How Energy Prices Work.

You’re Probably Not Addicted to Social Media

Do Republicans Want To Control Elections?