Arthur Bahr named head of MIT’s Literature Section

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Perceptions

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

MAHA or Institutionalization?

How to Build a Pro-AI Majority

As the Arctic warms, gray whale boom turns into a bust

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

Open Thread

In “The Face,” Fay Bound-Alberti examines our relationship to our most public features

Jail Should Not Be the Only Option for Kids in Mental-Health Crisis

Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

Ana Miljački named head of the Department of Architecture

Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Open Thread

Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?  

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

MIT-led project opens first climate shelter in Bangladesh

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