Long before the NFT boom or the Web3 backlash, an unglamorous movement was underway. Where does it stand now? | Continue reading
A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process. | Continue reading
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish? | Continue reading
What happened when Alabama tried and failed to kill Alan Eugene Miller | Continue reading
After he discovered a new anatomical basis for how movement decreases stress | Continue reading
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive. | Continue reading
The story of America’s “lost crops” shows the reign of corn was not inevitable. | Continue reading
The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends. | Continue reading
Ed Yong is taking a six-month sabbatical because of burnout from pandemic reporting # | Continue reading
Yesterday, the world got a look inside Elon Musk's phone. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is currently in litigation with Twitter and trying to back out of his deal to buy the platform and take it private. As part of the discovery process related to this lawsuit, Delaware's Court of Cha … | Continue reading
Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over." Anthony Fauci described the controversy around the proclamation as a matter of "semantics," but the facts we are living with can speak for themselves.(the … | Continue reading
Hurricane Ian shows some symptoms of global warming. But saying anything beyond that is folly. | Continue reading
How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs? | Continue reading
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis. | Continue reading
Many insurers don't cover it, and most people who qualify are afraid to get the procedure, but bariatric surgery has proven to be effective. | Continue reading
And grit is not always a virtue. | Continue reading
Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that. | Continue reading
The former president tried to sell his preferred version of himself, but said much more than he intended. | Continue reading
Amelia Nagoski discusses quiet quitting. | Continue reading
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients. | Continue reading
An email from a stranger sent me on a quest back in time, to the years before the Holocaust, in search of my family and myself. | Continue reading
Wishful thinking hampers the clean-energy revolution. | Continue reading
"Can you believe these are my customers?" Donald Trump once asked while surveying the crowd in the Taj Mahal casino's poker room. "Look at those losers," he said to his consultant Tom O'Neil, of people spending money on the floor of the Trump Plaza casino.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
A lifelong promoter of vaccines suspects he might be the rare, unfortunate exception. | Continue reading
The email came from a stranger. "Dear Mr. Temple," it said. "My name is Andrea Paiss, and I live in Budapest, Hungary. I do not know whether I write to the right person. I just hope so."(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
This week, like almost every week, federal agents will drop hundreds of people at the bus station in Brownsville, Texas. Those people will complete some paperwork, then board a bus-or sometimes a flight from Brownsville's airport-to other destinations across the United States.(th … | Continue reading
A cheating controversy involving two grandmasters shows how computers have transformed the game. | Continue reading
Responsibly disposing of used gadgets is more complicated than it may seem. | Continue reading
Why do so many kids need glasses now? | Continue reading
The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting. | Continue reading
How will they interpret the past? | Continue reading
How “coolhunters” helped make YouTube into an internet sensation before the algorithms took over. | Continue reading
How the terrorists stopped terrorism | Continue reading
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke. | Continue reading
They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the right reasons. | Continue reading
Our society is becoming less religious. Or is it? | Continue reading
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.” | Continue reading
For reasons rooted in the values of contemporary culture, the concept of shame had until recently all but vanished from discussions of emotional disarray. Now it is regarded by many psychologists as the preeminent cause of emotional distress in our time | Continue reading
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution? | Continue reading
This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression. | Continue reading
Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences, including depression, weight gain, and heart disease. It is torture. I know. | Continue reading
A new Johns Hopkins study looks at the neuroscience of jazz and the power of improvisation. | Continue reading
Salman Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly yesterday at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York. He is on a ventilator. He has wounds to his neck, stomach, and liver; severed nerves in one of his arms; and, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, will probably lose an e … | Continue reading
A mysterious pro-abortion-rights group is claiming credit for acts of vandalism around the country, and right-wing activists and politicians are eating it up. | Continue reading
The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide. | Continue reading
Will splitting monkeypox vaccines in five work out? | Continue reading
There are no good solutions to the problems of closet clean-out. | Continue reading