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The Only Thing the Houthis Have Done Successfully

50 Years Later, a Hit Book on Women’s Sexuality Deserves Some Love

Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century

All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

Literary culture has changed, often for the worse. But that doesn't mean the world is also getting worse

Trump Has Been Trampling Free Speech for More Than 40 Years—and It Keeps Getting Worse

U.S. crop genome sequencing gets $180 million boost

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

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How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness

A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life