Medicare for All Is Popular—Until People Find Out How It Would Work

Forensic Facial Specialists Can Identify People Using Just a Couple Facial Features

The European Union Wants To Punish People for Their Speech—Without Even a Trial

How intuitions work

Other people

Europe’s summer heat wave killed more than 50,000 people in urban areas

A California Wealth Tax Wouldn't Work. But This One Would

France Will Never Be Enough for the People Desecrating It

New Yorkers Don't Compost. Will They Be Fined Into Compliance?

Tuesday Poem

Why Is Strategy So Difficult?

The canonization of Peter Hujar. Known for his photographs of the oversexed New York art scene, his work is finally receiving its due

How Our Brains Read Emotions in Other People

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

“It Feels Like Something Out of Science Fiction”: Astronomers Find First Green Star

"The Court Requires Me to Warn You That I Pose a Risk of Stalking and Harassment to Intimate Partners"

"The AI Data Will Provide an Unrivaled View into the Mind of a Defendant …"

Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian

In ‘East of Eden,’ the Root of Evil Is All Too Familiar

A Nobel for the Poor People’s Lawyer

Friday Poem