"[A]n Unopposed Grant" of Sealing "Carries Little Weight in a Contested Posture"

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

The Fertility Crisis Isn’t Just for Rich Countries

More nothing now

Local Government’s Deepening Retirement Crisis

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Perceptions

Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Go Forward, at Least for Now

Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

Cops in Polk County, Georgia, Fatally Shoot Petting Zoo Donkey

The Fed and the Treasury Are in Denial

The Backlash Against Data Centers Is Bipartisan, Nationwide, and Wrong

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate

How We Decide Who Deserves Our Help

9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living

How does football cause brain disease—and why is it so hard to diagnose?

WPATH’s Bizarre Claim

WPATH: It’s Just Our Opinion, Judge