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AddMismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together
Experts analyze why Covid severity has declined, who still benefits from booster shots, and if a once-feared virus is now more like plain old colds or flu.
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…
NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?
Ava Kofman reports on Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the Los Angeles couple who ran Mark Surrogacy, an agency that they used to hire more than a dozen women to carry their children.
Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.
On war and what we have to choke down.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver...