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Lauren Collins’s takedown in The New Yorker is headlined “A Forty-Million-Dollar Journey into the Void.” The subtitle of a videotaped panel in the New York Times’ opinion section is “Watching a First ...

Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.

ARPAs are everywhere. The granddaddy of them all is the sexagenarian Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which claims credit for the development of stealth technology, the Internet, and ...

Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his Republican allies dismiss the findings of health experts as casually as those of ...

Last August the New York Times Magazine released a special issue they called the 1619 Project, which uses the 400th anniversary of the arrival of “20 and odd” enslaved Africans in Virginia to recast ...

In Atlanta in late 1969, historian Vincent Harding joined with a group of Black academics to establish the Institute of the Black World (IBW). Rooted in a commitment to “the colonized situation of the ...

“Effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement founded on Peter Singer’s ideas, applies a consequentialist philosophy to the problem of global poverty. “Effective altruism,” the philanthropic ...

What happens next and how to take things seriously are difficulties these texts have something to tell us about—something we need, still, to learn. This account of these three notoriously difficult ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching ...

Beginning in the late 1860s, the decade that it took to construct the Suez Canal, photographs depicting its feats of engineering circulated across the world. Sold to travelers as souvenirs, featured ...