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State Governments Burden Residents With Growing Debt Just Like the Feds

How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle

Why Your Shrink Should Prescribe Exercise

China Is Defanging the Dollar, Not Dethroning It

The far-right marches under its banner. But what is “Western civilization”?

Wednesday Poem

How Capitalism Quietly Revolutionized Everyday Life

Annie Ernaux: “Alfred Nobel’s intentions were noble. But everything that follows — the mountains of mail, the endless requests — is a burden”

A Night of Pure Trumpenfreude

Trump’s Humiliation of a Historic Scale — What Comes Next in Iran

When Frog Eyes Are Like Fingerprints

The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before

A Trump Appointee Says the President Likely Violated the First Amendment by Banishing Disfavored Journalists

Death Was Never a Joke

Washington Irving’s American Ghost

MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Rep. Steve Cohen Thinks the DEA Shouldn't Be Practicing Medicine

What the Economy Is Sacrificing to AI

MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines

In praise of the dilettante