Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

How to measure a good life – tips for moving beyond GDP

Rodrigo Duterte's 'Death Squads' Fought in the Philippines' War on Drugs. Now He Might Get Life in Prison.

How Gum Disease Can Lead to Breast Cancer

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

What Happens If There's a Murder in Antarctica?

Open Thread

How to Fix DHS

DOJ Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Harvard, Citing Campus Antisemitism

An Australian in Mexico

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Sylvia Plath meditated in hers. Frida Kahlo painted her whole life floating in one. Is the bathtub a political object?

Trump’s Tariff Loss Is the Worst Judicial Defeat in Presidential History

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Nick Lane on the Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

Outsourcing Life

A brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life