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Georgia Cop Claimed Petting Zoo Donkey Was Charging at His Team When He Shot It

A Liberal Think Tank and an Air Force Major Are Trump's Latest Targets for Speech Policing

Setting the table: depictions of Christ’s Last Supper

Why Pakistani’s Read Less?

Is Implanted “Knowledge” Knowledge?

Lion King Composer vs. Comedian Dispute Leads to ~$40K Attorney Fee Award Against Composer

Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions

Terence Tao explains 6 essential concepts of math

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

Fastest known star could reveal the spin of our galaxy’s giant black hole

Yu Deng ’11 and Hong Wang PhD ’19 awarded Fields Medal

Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967

Israeli-American Emory Professor's Civil Rights Conspiracy Claim Against CAIR Georgia and Emory Student Can Go Forward (in Part)

Today in Supreme Court History: August 27, 1948

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

Against the Lewis Model

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

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