The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War

Claim That State Employee Was Unconstitutionally Demoted "Because She Did Not Share" Education Agency's Views on Race Can Go Forward

This Week’s Photograph

Open Thread

How Do We Feel About Women's Work?

The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

How Social Media Became Antisocial

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

Rage of the Falling Elite

Fowler dismissed them as the mark of an amateur; Adorno called them soundless cymbal-crashing. How do you feel about exclamation points?

A President With More Control but Less Power

Pakistan’s Rise To A Middle Power

Supreme Court Begins Answering Lingering Questions About Constitutional Constraints on Gun Control

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

How Animals Communicate Across Species

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: July 6, 1835

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

Colorectal Cancer and Childhood Exposure to a Common Gut Bacteria