Why the US-China Trade Truce Matters

What a Canada–Europe Alliance Needs

All-around junior male

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

‘China Shock’—or Minor Perturbation?

Perceptions

Are Right‑Brained People Really More Creative?

Socializing Safety

Doctor, Patient, and AI

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

Homelessness Policy at a Crossroads

How to Lose a Trade War

What History Tells Us About the AI Debate

Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment

From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing

The AI Tipping Point

US SENDING THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND 10,000 MORE TROOPS TO GULF—WHAT IS THE RISK OF A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY IRAN?

The Making of the Democratic Insurgency