Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

Working Class Hero

What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle

Open Thread

Perceptions

Colombia’s Rightward Turn

Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs

Contradictions of Socialist Prison Abolitionism

Is the War in Iran Spiraling Out of Control?

Looking Back On Amores Perros

Radar Map Shows Wildfires in Canada Blanketing the US with Smoke

An Alternative History for America at 250

ICE Keeps Shooting People. Here's a Way Congress Can Rein It In.

America Has a Huge Trade Surplus With Brazil. Trump Just Put 25 Percent Tariffs on Brazilian Goods Anyway.

In America, Almost Anyone Can Be a Millionaire

AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”

Open Thread

Vance Exposing Epstein's Intelligence Links on Rogan? Not Quite.

The Racialist State