In America, Almost Anyone Can Be a Millionaire

America Has a Huge Trade Surplus With Brazil. Trump Just Put 25 Percent Tariffs on Brazilian Goods Anyway.

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

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Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it?

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

A Japanese Wake-Up Call for America

This Prehistoric Giant Salamander Grew to Almost 4 Feet Long 

Russia and America Are Rediscovering the Limits of Nuclear Weapons

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Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

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

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution