What Is a Trillion, Really?

$1.77 trillion, in stacked hundred dollar bills, compared to the Statue of Liberty, Elon Musk, $1.7 billion, a Tesla Model X and a SpaceX Starship

Are Government Stakes the Key to AI Sovereignty?

Ambassadors of Ugliness

What Next for Global Trade?

Justice Barrett v. Justice Jackson On Textualism

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

The Declaration of Independence Turns South

Poem by Jim Culleny

Therapy for billionaires

My Descent Into Mah-Jongg

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

Are we really in “the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press”?

'VERY HARD'

274 Years Ago Today, Benjamin Franklin Flew a Kite

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Open Thread

Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth

Generational Debts of Gratitude

Open Thread