Walt Whitman's American Vistas

Trump's Tariffs Will Cost Each American Household $900 in 2026

A Bill To Crack Down on Chinese Cars Could Shut Mercedes-Benz Out of American Markets

New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

AI Has Already Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

Resist the technocrats

The Incoherence of the Iran Hawks

This Is the Wrong Way to Police Student Visas

First Amendment Might Protect FTP&ATF License Plate

You’re Carrying “Ghost DNA” From Extinct Hominins

The American Commentator Making Excuses for Iran

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Prediction Markets Are Hot. But Can They Avoid Becoming Casinos?

Pentagon Death Numbers

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene talk physics

Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth

Sunday Poem

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Are you unable to earn a living making art but want to do it seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job

Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns