Wuthering Heights Is a Kinky, Revisionist Fever Dream  

Financing the Global South’s Infrastructure Boom

Aliens

Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X

Open Thread

Global Cooperation in a Time of Geopolitical Disruption

MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

For leftists, philanthropy is often simply an expression of plutocratic power. How then to make sense of the surprisingly radical Garland Fund?

“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”

Babies Are Exposed to More Forever Chemicals in Utero Than Previously Thought

The Haiku of Richard Wright

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

Dream Engineering Could Help You Solve Problems While You Sleep

Science Alone Won’t Stop Lassa Fever

Felon's Living with Family Members Who He Knows Own Guns Doesn't Itself Show "Possession" Under State Ban on Felons Possessing Guns

Financialization Won’t Improve Global Health

In Mamdani's War on Delivery Apps, New Yorkers Are the Collateral Damage

The film critic A.S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, or takedowns. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions

How Boats Are a Buzzkill for Porpoises

Young and gifted

New in WaPo: "College deans aren't protected by academic freedom"