Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

AI and the Global South’s Next Leap Forward

No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Today in Supreme Court History: February 14, 1845

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Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

The House Just Reclaimed Its Tariff Power From Trump. Now Congress Can Try To Strike Down His Canada Tariffs.

Larry Levis died in 1996, at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

Why Teflon Is Losing Its Sticking Power

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1989 to 2009

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

Penicillin and American Power

It’s Time To Target The Political Power Of Polluters

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem