America Spent a Fortune Shooting Down Cheap Drones. Now the Missile Stores Are Bare.

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

Open Thread

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

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

What 1976 Got Right About America

Trump Sees World Cup Visitors as a Threat, But America Sees a Chance for Hospitality

AI & Drones: Eric Schmidt On The Biggest Revolution In The History Of Warfare

Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates

Police Kill 1-Year-Old Boy by Shooting Into Car of Suspected Shoplifters

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

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