As forests burn, can we replant trees ready for a warmer world?

Why collect stamps? Explanations include nostalgia, anal-retentiveness, erotic frustration, and the desire to escape into a remote, private world

This Philosopher Thinks It’s Time We Call Out Evil in Our World

Best Credit in the World

Understanding the world, from the Cold War to the age of AI

Middlemarch: George Eliot’s Hegelian World

How Did the Nation Get Its Name? Other Suggestions Included the United Colonies, Columbia and the United States of Alleghania

FDA launches pilot program to speed up sluggish phase 1 trials

Warning Notice to Man Who Sent Critical E-Mail to ICE Acting Director Likely Violated First Amendment

Open Thread

Animal eye

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

Why the Discovery of the First Short-Tailed Tsushima Leopard Cat Worried Researchers

Libel Suit Against Book Publisher by Doctor Accused of Performing Unnecessary Gynecological Procedures on Immigration Detainees Can Go Forward

Anita Brookner: Art and Life

Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis 

Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His savagery reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying

Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — lasting under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era