"That Fire Burns Is an Inference Nearly as Old as Human History"

A forgotten 1992 theory predicted black holes would appear early in our universe's history. Then the Webb telescope found exactly that

Today in Supreme Court History: August 24, 1946

Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998

Today in Supreme Court History: August 23, 2007

HBO’s Great New Sunday Night Series Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen

Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

Gorsuch’s Con-jority Opinion in Slaughter

Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?

Trump’s Korean Catastrophe

An American City, With Troops on Its Streets

Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

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

The “Kerry Cow” Wasn’t a Cow at All—And It Upends Stone Age Irish History

Today in Supreme Court History: August 22, 1998

Why Human Giants Defy the Laws of Physics

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn

Today in Supreme Court History: August 20, 1866

Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers