Opinion | Would Trump be a dictator? And can he be stopped? - The Washington Post

There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?

Harry Siegel: What Eric Adams is telling NYC makes no sense

Almost nothing Mayor Adams is doing now feels right, and none of it can be taken at face value.

A Daoist Take On The World Gone Sideways

Ancient wisdom understood the principle of reverse movement in history.

What is Adrian Mannarino Doing? | Racquet

Ideas Podcast: The Sounds of Life | Princeton University Press

The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.

Mother Who Gave Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter Gets 2 Years in Prison - The New York Times

Jessica Burgess had pleaded guilty to violating Nebraska’s abortion law. Her daughter, who was 17 when she ended her late-term pregnancy last year, was sentenced in July to 90 days in jail.

Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? - Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Texodus – Political Orphans

Life in Texas is all sunshine and tacos until you need something. 

Mika Westwolf matters - by Judd Legum - Popular Information

In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, Sunny White, is an all..

Opinion | The Pandemic Threat That Hasn’t Gone Away - The New York Times

Lab safety failures have been a continual danger, with too little being done.

Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother ‹ Literary Hub

I was on my way to the Adelaide Writer’s Festival when I first heard about The Palestinians. “We’re sure you have heard,” read the email, “about The Palestinians.̶…

AI Is Life

Technology like AI is not artificially replacing life — it is life.

Opinion | Religion Has Friends Among Judges in High Places - The New York Times

Will there ever be a religious claim anymore that goes too far?

Opinion | What Is the Plastic in Our Bodies Doing to Us? - The New York Times

Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage.

Einstein on Free Will and the Power of the Imagination – The Marginalian

“Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an invisible tune, intoned in the distance by a mysterious player.”

Opinion | Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson: The 1876 election launched Jim Crow - The Washington Post

A committee resolved the disputed presidential vote by agreeing to pull out federal troops who protected newly freed Black citizens across the South.

‎Emergence Magazine Podcast: What Survives – Lacy M. Johnson on Apple Podcasts

In this narrated essay, author Lacy M. Johnson reflects on what can be rebuilt and what must be mourned as our environments shift, fracture, and sometimes disappear. Walking through a wetlands that was once an upscale neighborhood in Houston, Lacy comes into contact with a landscape transformed by o..

Opinion | Yuval Harari on Threats to Humanity Posed by A.I. - The New York Times

In games like chess, no human can hope to beat a computer. What happens when the same thing occurs in art, politics or religion?

Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy ‹ Literary Hub

The following is from speech given at the Swedish Academy on March 22, 2023, at a conference called Thought and Truth Under Pressure. * I thank the Swedish Academy for inviting me to speak at this …