Who is Death Bad For? Assessing Our Attitudes Toward Animals

A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art

Juvenile Detention Is Increasingly the Only Option for Troubled Teens

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes?

SCOTUS Seems Skeptical of the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Cannabis Consumers

The Perils of a Power Vacuum in Iran

Trump Rolls the Iron Dice

Coping with catastrophe

How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs

Les Perelman, expert in writing assessment and champion of writing education, dies at 77

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Mellon Foundation has put huge sums of money toward the idea that arts and letters is not for wisdom, but for advocacy

When Camus died in a car crash, he was carrying a return train ticket. "The greatest proponent of absurdism suffered an absurd death"

The Stream Animals Thriving After a Megafire

There were two Thomas Manns: the early, coolly ironic author of Death in Venice — and the later, literary spokesman for democracy

Oklahoma Ends Indefinite Death Row Solitary Confinement

AIs are biased toward some Indian castes — how can researchers fix this?

Assessing Modernity’s Malaise

The death of the dance floor — and the movements to replace it

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death