California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both

Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota

Secret Emails Reveal Sketchy Tactics in California Public Health's Tobacco Ban 'Endgame'

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Settlement as to "California Law Prohibiting Anyone from Sharing Lawfully Obtained Information About Sealed Arrest Records"

On Marijuana and Guns, Clarence Thomas Still Wants To Limit Federal Power

Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

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

The Supervisory Power Of The Supreme Court As A Form Of Virtue Signaling

"Needless Cost Increases" from "Both Counsels' Choices to Follow the Path of Most Resistance"

How political leaders use combat spectacles to symbolize national power and purpose

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

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

Weschler on Hockney

Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work