Will It Take Superpowers, Spirits and Reincarnation to Save the Planet?

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Brazil Moves To End the Six-Day Workweek

Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026) Scholar and Historian

What Happens When We Die

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

François Englert (1932 – 2026) Theoretical Physicist And Nobel Laureate

The Complexity of Letting Go

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

Poem by Jim Culleny

The Policing Strategy That Helped Save Baltimore

Take a Gander at an Ancient Supernova in the Heart of the Milky Way

Progressive Dogma Is Fueling Academic Dishonesty

Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress

This Week’s Photograph

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

The DSA’s Radical New Platform

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

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