‘Indian, African, American, Muslim, Hindu’: Zohran Mamdani’s Identity Speech

American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This

Review: Drunk History and the American Revolution

Open Thread

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Instacart Is Suing New York City Over Its $22.13 Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers

The Pope and the AI Profiteers

How Israel Can Prevent the Next October 7

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

The Rise of the UnJews

How Artemis II livestreamed hi-def videos and images from the moon to Earth

Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop

The Promise and Limits of African Data Sovereignty

More on the Southern Poverty Law Center Allegedly Funding the American Nazi Party and Other Racists

Putting American Science on a MAGA Leash

Court Rejects Claim That Rwandan Speech Restrictions Will Prevent Rwandan Witnesses in U.S. Perjury Trial "from Speaking Freely About the Genocide"

Open Thread

Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?

The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”

How Do You Define 'Ceasefire'?