Then They Came for the Ostriches

He Campaigned for the East Cleveland Mayor's Opponent. Then Police Came for His Truck.

Iran Just Offered to Reopen Hormuz. Today, Russia Flies In to Broker It. Will Trump Take the Exit?

Sunday Poem

"If You Throw a Skunk into the Jury Box, You Can't Instruct the Jury Not to Smell It"

Who Should Defend Democracy?

How Corruption Got This Bad

The Hindu Temple Shooting Plot

Open Thread

A profusion of Plath. Never has so much of her work – journals, letters, prose, poems – been available. Is it too much?

The Minimal Requirements for a Society Free from Fear

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What Newsrooms Should Know Before They Take Money From OpenAI

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

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

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions