What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?

Today in Supreme Court History: July 30, 1956

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New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

Chicago Homeowner Sues Border Cops for Warrantless Raid

Hasan Piker and Code Pink Went to Cuba. Now They Might Be Under Investigation.

AI Has Already Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

High-speed orcas are blowing sunfish to smithereens

Trump's New Director of National Intelligence Is a Menace to Liberty

Resist the technocrats

Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns

Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou

Today in Supreme Court History: July 28, 1880

Today in Supreme Court History: July 26, 1892

Today in Supreme Court History: July 27, 1929

Today in Supreme Court History: July 25, 1965

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene talk physics

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Nigel Farage's Reform U.K. Party Reports Green Party Leader's Guillotine Instagram Post to Police

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother