How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts

Online Age-Gating Is the Wrong Answer

Ocean bacteria team up to break down biodegradable plastic

If You Hate Dubai

Remembering Brian Doherty, Chronicler of and Participant in Wild and Wonderful Subcultures

New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

No Defamation Liability for NYU Report Summarizing Court Filing Alleging Prosecutorial Misconduct

Unbounded

On empathy

The Bukele Effect in Latin America

Today in Supreme Court History: March 16, 1925

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

Love and Virtue in Pride and Prejudice

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

Why “Legalize and Tax” Is the Wrong Solution to Our Drug Problem

Can Zapping Our Brains Make Us Less Selfish?

Ghosts, Love, And The Search For Readers, Part 2: A Continuing Conversation With Writer Kipling Knox

What Trump Gets Wrong About Corruption and Business

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible