The self-making world

Hasan Piker's Defamation Suit Against Scott Jennings Isn't As Simple as It Seems

The Politics of Poland’s Judicial Crisis

Scary Halloween Cold Open

Trump’s Lengthening “Three-Day” Air Plan -- and Iran’s Most Likely Parallel Answer

Montana Man Faces Felony Charges for Telling Man of South Asian Descent To 'Go Back to His Country'

California's Uber and Lyft Union May Just Be the Beginning

NYC Looks To Scale Up Mamdani's Office of Community Safety. Minneapolis Leaders Just Voted To End Theirs.

Just in Case You Have to Be Here

A Libertarian Perspective on the 2026 Election

Trump vs. WSJ Libel Lawsuit over Trump's Alleged Birthday Wishes to Epstein Thrown out

Fields of lilies, fractal landscapes, idioms, DNA, Renoir’s orange, human anatomy: Why is the world full of so much beauty?

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

A History of the World in Four Algorithms – Sarah Hart

$9.25M Verdict Against N.Y. Times, in Libel Case Brought by Alabama Basketball Player

Trump Is Taking a Stake in Venezuela's Oil Industry and This Crony Is Cashing In

Friday Poem

Recent AI Progress Wasn’t Overhyped: Almost Everyone Underestimated It.

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury

Early-career researchers’ right to unionize at NIH is upheld, against agency’s petition

Israeli Election Results Hazy, Try Again