Missing the Mark on New York's Fiscal Crisis Recovery

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A Natural Solution to the Replication Crisis in Science

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What We Remember

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Today in Supreme Court History: September 10, 1949

The GOP Midterm Convention Is the Campiest Apocalypse I've Ever Seen

The Expansion of Executive Power

You’re Joining a Union—Whether You Want to Or Not

Brickbat: Itchy Taser Finger

The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point where one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entirety of the nonfiction bestseller list

Helen Vendler spent a lifetime writing about lyric poetry, yet her criticism always started from frustration, not certainty

He claimed to burn with no causes — that detachment let Tom Stoppard dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Open Thread

Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare 

China abruptly delays mission to probe Moon’s hidden water