Homeland Security Is Spending $1 Billion on 'Autonomous' Border Surveillance Towers

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward

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

Fossil skull flattening suggests ancient origins of infant helplessness

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

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

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

E.U. Fines Google $1 Billion and Orders It To Give Competitors Equal Treatment

The Social Security Reckoning Is Finally Coming

Georgia Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Misusing Flock Surveillance Data

Round and Round We Go

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

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Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

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When Stupid Was a Diagnosis