Local Government’s Deepening Retirement Crisis

The Fertility Crisis Isn’t Just for Rich Countries

Hard Lessons for Europe From the Ceuta Crisis

Open Thread

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking

Trump Wants the FCC To Punish His Enemies

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

More nothing now

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police

China abruptly delays mission to probe Moon’s hidden water

First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

Dolly Parton’s American Life

Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967