Even Under Mamdani, New York City's Ballot Questions Might Cut Red Tape and Public Review Hearings

Mamdani Can’t Ignore Subway Violence Forever

Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception 

Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

I Predict the GOP Will Lose Its Senate Majority (and Magically Regain It)

How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?

Forensic Facial Specialists Can Identify People Using Just a Couple Facial Features

Is There Life on Mars, Pennsylvania?

As a mathematics professor I thought AI was all hype, but I was wrong

Iron at Earth’s heart may take a surprising form

The European Union Wants To Punish People for Their Speech—Without Even a Trial

Mamdani Is the Centrist We’ve Been Waiting For

Supreme Court Will Hear Case on "Facially Neutral" Discrimination Against Asian Students in Admissions to Public Magnet Schools

Your Briefing Replay, Plus My Answers to Three Questions You Asked

Mamdani Can Ignore Subway Violence for Only So Long

“Lobster and duck at the Johnson White House.” The success of Ralph Ellison’s individualist crusade resulted in an extreme version of public life

Brendan Carr's Vendetta Against ABC Conflates the 'Public Interest' With Trump's Personal Grievances

Congratulations to the Hoover Institution's Robert E. Hall, on His Economics Nobel Prize

Open Thread

US SENDING THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND 10,000 MORE TROOPS TO GULF—WHAT IS THE RISK OF A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY IRAN?