Early Humans in America Endured Climate Chaos

America Abandoned Public Executions for a Good Reason

Arundathi Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"

America Has a Police Shortage

Open Thread

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

He Campaigned for the East Cleveland Mayor's Opponent. Then Police Came for His Truck.

Some Progressives Tried To Abolish the Tipped Minimum Wage. Now They're Backtracking.

Current AI isn’t superhumanly intelligent, but it is superhumanly fast, and that opens many new possibilities

Varieties of Postliberalism

Sunday Poem

FBI Foils Plot To Attack Mall of America With FBI-Provided AK-47

America: Democracy or Republic?

Can China and America Handle Being Ordinary?

Trump Says He Wants Drones and Snipers in 250-Foot Triumphal Arch, Complicating His Controversial Proposal

Lea Ypi’s Genre-Blending Histories

Europe Grapples With 'Hybrid Warfare' While Rebuilding Its Defense Capabilities

Economists Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share Nobel prize

For women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blow

Trump’s Smart Census Proposal

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