The GOP Midterm Convention Is the Campiest Apocalypse I've Ever Seen

In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since

How Fast You Walk May Determine How Long You Live

Why Some Ants are Lazy Freeloaders

How Letting a Young Child Go for a Walk Can Become a Criminal Offense

The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change

Conference posters could garner a wider audience, thanks to a new online platform

How Did Birds Outlive the Other Dinosaurs?

When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering

Is the musical scale we grew up with dictated by physics, or is it something we just got used to?

The Prodigy Problem

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Facts Are Made

AI Is Already Making Us Less Human

How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human

This comic is drawing women into prehistory

Kevin Warsh’s Best Move Is to Do Nothing

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

America’s Naval Disaster

Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, interviews Yuval Noah Harari

What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers