Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved? by Sarah Scoles
Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure
Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity
Could the hunt for the universe’s missing matter be the biggest wild goose chase in scientific history?
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features “EMPIRE OF GRIFT” – Anne Applebaum examines how hardened ideologues and opportunistic profiteers are bending American diplomacy to advance an antidemocratic agenda—and their own financial interests. For our cover, the illustrator Ben Hickey created an ominous image of figures in shadow arrayed around a map of the world, evoking the war-room scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. By Anne Applebaum
The president’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers—for all of us—of virtual self-aggrandizement. By Gal Beckerman
A new book suggests that arguing isn’t about winning but seems preoccupied with it anyway. By Lily Meyer
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features….
LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA: The latest issue features…
On the connection between books and home Kyle Wyatt
Does healing the world mean abandoning capitalism? Darrell Varga
Where non-sovereign nations dwell George Anderson
Jackie Robinson’s season in Montreal David Marks Shribman
THE NATION MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Fall Books’….
The crusade against ballot access, like virtually every other facet of Trump’s agenda, does nothing to serve the interests of “the people,” but our press is too brain-dead to notice.
The Gen Z filmmaker presents the decade not as it was but as reproduced via nostalgic threads on Internet forums.
Propagandists for stay-at-home domesticity are monetizing a fantasy—and they’re not really staying at home.
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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Exploring Mexico City’s Private Worlds’ – Intimate treasures await in the sprawling capital’s newest museums, from artists’ homes to buried ruins.
The ancient capital has plenty of artwork and fossils, if that’s what you like. Or tour the writing rooms of a Nobel winner, the fortified home of an exiled Russian revolutionary and towers of skulls
Before they become sandy souvenirs, the baubles in the bubbles of the shoreline serve as a veritable fortress for creatures like clams, mussels and conchs
Known for its elaborate courtship ritual, the white-headed duck is a conservation icon in Spain. Elsewhere, it’s fighting for a second act
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…
Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.
Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.
AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?
LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.
NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Improving By Degrees’…
The battle has not yet been won, but the signs are auspicious. Frederick M. Hess
The dangerous Islamist-socialist vanguard. Andrew C. McCarthy
The real divide in America today: nostalgia vs. reality. Charles C. W. Cooke
Where Silicon Valley meets the Pentagon, the wheels of innovation are whirring. Luther Ray Abel
I hiked, I camped, I conquered. Sarah Schutte
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The American Prison Experiment’ – A 250-year history of good intentions and bad results…
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system’s never-ending cycle of failure and reform
New cars in the E.U. must now have cameras that track drivers’ eyes and flag distractions.
This is what happens when you give the government control over artistic institutions.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving rifle restrictions imposed by Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End Of The Alliance?’
Learning to Live in a Post-American World by Mark Leonard
Preparing for a World of Synthetic Pathogens by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Congress Must Lead to Compete With Beijing by Bill Cassidy
The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order by Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi
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