If AI Thinks for Us, Democracy Will Suffer

New Brennan Center Report on Curbing Executive Power

J-PAL North America launches ARTEMIS to train early-career researchers

Today in Supreme Court History: October 31, 1963

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

Disgust and desire. In the 16th century, a woman might carry a peeled apple in her armpit until it absorbed her scent, then give it to her lover

Sunday Poem

Amicus Brief in OneTaste Criminal Prosecution

Open Thread

The Great Bernard Williams

How did the journal Telos, champion of Marcuse and Gramsci, produce two editors who would serve in Trump’s State Department?

Rep. Steve Cohen Thinks the DEA Shouldn't Be Practicing Medicine

Can Democracy Survive the Next Financial Crash?

AI cracks a 27-year-old pillar of computer science, OpenAI and Anthropic claim

What Will Democrats Do?

Our Planet’s Lungs Are Suffering

Magnetic sensors track muscle movement, for better prosthetic limb control

James Fessenden was indolent, wrote little, and inspired two of the most charismatic intellectuals of his time

Democrats Want to Punish Elon Musk. Nationalizing SpaceX Would Punish Innovation.

What a US-China AI Safety Channel Needs

The Populism-to-Paperwork Pipeline