A “Dead” Coral Reef Found Thriving Off the Coast of Africa

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Working Class Hero

What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle

Open Thread

Perceptions

Colombia’s Rightward Turn

Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs

Contradictions of Socialist Prison Abolitionism

Is the War in Iran Spiraling Out of Control?

Looking Back On Amores Perros

New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa

How Socialism Captured the West Coast

For Workers on Alaska’s North Slope, You “Sleep When You’re Dead”

This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found

AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”

Open Thread

Vance Exposing Epstein's Intelligence Links on Rogan? Not Quite.

Radar Map Shows Wildfires in Canada Blanketing the US with Smoke

The Racialist State