These Ancient Sea Worms Have “Biometal” Jaws

Open Thread

Tuesday Poem

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

Lean In—to Other People

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Towards an AI for Africa

Archives: August/September 2026

A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It

These Cameras Save Lives. But Some Want Them Banned

Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

Did Ancient Humans Prefer Hunting Female Mammoths?

How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans

Trump Keeps Pushing Legally Dubious Tariffs

Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other

Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one

With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence