The Unlucky Ones: What It Feels Like to Get Struck By Lightning

What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut”

Nassau County (N.Y.) Buffer Zone Outside Houses of Worship Struck Down

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

The memories of others

Open Thread

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

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

Did Justice Jackson Lose The Majority In Landor To Justice Gorsuch?

Remembering Alan Greenspan

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

Open Thread

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

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

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

The DSA’s Radical New Platform

Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992

A Problematic Transgender Survey

Trauma creep

François Englert (1932 – 2026) Theoretical Physicist And Nobel Laureate