When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster

New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

AI Has Already Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

Resist the technocrats

The Incoherence of the Iran Hawks

This Is the Wrong Way to Police Student Visas

First Amendment Might Protect FTP&ATF License Plate

You’re Carrying “Ghost DNA” From Extinct Hominins

Error 888: Complaint Too Long

Which Fish Species Will Invade the Mediterranean Next?

Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou

When Clean-Air Rules Make Wildfire Smoke Worse

New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Prediction Markets Are Hot. But Can They Avoid Becoming Casinos?

Pentagon Death Numbers

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene talk physics

Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth

Sunday Poem

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution