Ken Griffin’s Carnegie Mellon Bet Could Pay Off Big

Friday Poem

Open Thread

The AIs Are Not Going Rogue

Life on a hair trigger

Don’t Miss Saturn in All its Glory This Weekend

America’s Looming Debt Reckoning

The OECD Should Be Reclaimed, Not Abandoned

The Supreme Court Will Be Drawing Lots of Lines

Africa’s effort to make most of its own vaccines by 2040 faces significant headwinds

Somehow the N.Y. Times Made Me Sympathetic To Chief Justice Roberts

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Perverseness drove Edgar Allan Poe to ruin, or the brink of it, again and again. It was also the source of his inspiration

The Egyptians, the Hittites, the Assyrians — what caused the collapse of a slew of regional powers around 1200 BC? 

TRO Issued Ordering Reinstatement of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico White House Access

Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?