The Forgotten World of Thornton W. Burgess

Why the World Still Needs Wall Street

Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive 

Open Thread

ABC's First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC

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

MDBs Are Becoming a New Global Safe Asset

The “Kerry Cow” Wasn’t a Cow at All—And It Upends Stone Age Irish History

You’re Not a Universal Mosquito Magnet

Machine learning of artistic fingerprints in jazz

When Liberalism Meets a Person: What Freedom Alone Fails to See

The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

Trump's Threats To Yank Broadcast Licenses Are Part of a Speech-Chilling Intimidation Campaign

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds

Female Treefrogs Get Overwhelmed by Too Many Noisy Male Suitors

New York’s Data Center Moratorium is a Huge Mistake

What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? It’s an “audiovisual spectacle” with little to no “narrative and emotional depth”

Sweden Doesn’t Mandate Childcare Ratios. Why Does America?

“I’m Just Having a Blast in My Feminine Era.”

Drought may have driven Brazil’s first yellow fever outbreak in nearly 80 years