The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

How This Emerging Tick-borne Virus Escapes Your Immune System

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How Much Control Do You Have Over Your Mind?

Scholarship requires bracketing your own convictions long enough to inhabit a possibly repugnant argument. Too few now attempt it

Federal Judge in Texas Not Wild About Fifth Circuit's Recent Precedent

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Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

How to Avoid Annoying Your Judge with Your Sealing Requests

Border Cops Can Search Your Phone Whenever They Want, If You're Within 100 Miles of the Border

Stop Posting "Personal, Confidential, or Humiliating Information" About Your Ex, Influencer Is Ordered

Data Centers Aren’t Raising Your Power Bill. Bad Policies Are.

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“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

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