The Mayor Who Loves Bodegas Is Building Taxpayer-Funded Competitors

Trauma creep

Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

Neanderthal 1

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

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Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Today in Supreme Court History: June 20, 1837

How Worried Should We Be About a Socialist Mayor in D.C.?

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

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Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Open Thread

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point

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