Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

Confusion about Commandeering

DOJ Briefly Abandons Trump's Unconstitutional Orders Targeting Law Firms

Justices Debate Substantive Due Process Again, This Time in Parental Rights / Gender Transition Concealment Case

Trump’s Unaffordable Midterm Stimulus

Open Thread

Catspeak

Why Do Decent Working-Class People Do Indecent Things?

Incompleteness and Its Discontents

By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History

Who Can Lead India Toward Sustainable Development?

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

A protein found in the GI tract can neutralize many bacteria

Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Right to Abortion to Prevent Serious Harm to Woman's Health

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Gitlow Revisited: Disentangling Ideas and Crimes Via the Harm Principle," by Ronald Krotoszynski

How some people get drunk from their own gut bacteria

Actually, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime

Stevie Wonder’s Rule for AI at CES 2026—‘Make Life Better for the Living’

Confessions of a midlist writer. Once it was okay for a writer’s debut to sell only a few thousand copies. No longer

“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”

Stalking Allegations, Defamation and Malicious Prosecution Claims, and Professors, with a Trans Angle

The earliest <em>Homo</em> species did not look human, partial skeleton shows