In this corner, a writer

HBO’s Great New Sunday Night Series Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen

Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

Gorsuch’s Con-jority Opinion in Slaughter

Brain circuit keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgment of what’s happening now

5 Years of the Journal of Free Speech Law, 150 Published Articles

Scotland’s Intellectual Triumph

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

This ICE Office Detains People for Days in Overcrowded Holding Cells

Perceptions

A Bellwether for Militancy? The DSA’s New National Youth Leaders

Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates

NASA abandons orbit-boosting rescue mission for space observatory

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Hoover Daily Report | August 20, 2026

The Ceuta Crisis Is About More Than Migration

Utah Needs More Housing. The Army Corps Shut Down 265 New Homes Because of a Small Ditch.

The game’s the thing

Trump's Pernicious Threat to Impose Tariffs on Canada in Response to Wildfires

How Art Invented Humanity

New York’s Data Center Moratorium is a Huge Mistake