Can We Ditch BMI for an Obesity Index That Predicts Disease Risk Better?

Review of Sabrina Sholts’ “The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics”, against the background of US politics

Risk and Safety, in the Economy and Life

A Stunning Nebula Image Predicts How Our Sun Will Die

What Happens When 2 Dan Sullivans Run for the Same Senate Seat?

Sinking Ships

The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn

Trump Promised Not to Bomb Iran Before the Midterms --Here’s Why He Might Anyway

Your Briefing Replay, Plus My Answers to Three Questions You Asked

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Arundathi Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"

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

Can GLP-1s heal the brain? Obesity drugs get a makeover for addiction and depression

Magic mushroom compound may prevent chemotherapy pain

Heterodoxy Isn’t a Constituency

This Prehistoric Alaskan Camp is Rewriting the History of Beringia

A Ph.D. certifies expertise in a discipline. But ignorance is a precondition for thinking something new. James Miller explains

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson

Banning Microsoft from Bringing Immigrants is a Big Mistake

Aaron Sorkin's New Anti-Facebook Movie Is a Stunning Act of Self-Satisfied Cowardice

Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972