The University of California Caves to Activists

California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both

Secret Emails Reveal Sketchy Tactics in California Public Health's Tobacco Ban 'Endgame'

Settlement as to "California Law Prohibiting Anyone from Sharing Lawfully Obtained Information About Sealed Arrest Records"

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

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Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

The Tech Companies That Just Need the Money

The University As We Know It Is Finished, and That’s a Good Thing

The Tripartite University

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2026-27

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

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What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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