Month: January 2024

In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, a “psychohistorian” in a far-flung galactic empire figures out a way to predict the future so exactly that he can anticipate both the empire’s fall…

Happy birthday to Jonathan the tortoise, who was born in the same decade that John Brown first conceived of what would become the raid at Harper’s Ferry pic.twitter.com/CBDIUGiwQC — Jeff…

Yves here. I am preserving the original “Economy for All” headline, since it reflects some of what is wrong with this piece. The problem, of course, is not vacation housing…

Yves here. Past versions of schemes to regularize the immigration status of what is often called “undocumented” migrants have generally come to naught when Republicans and other conservative types demand…

On This Week’s Episode: There’s the thing you plan to do, and then there’s the thing you end up doing. This is a rerun of an episode that first aired…

The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to…

How far into the New Year do you progress before you stop greeting people with “Happy New Year”? Is it two weeks? The end of January? Valentine’s Day? I like…

Rarely in American politics has a leading presidential candidate made such grave accusations about a rival: warning that he is willing to violate the Constitution. Claiming that he is eager…

The states that rely on the Colorado River, which is shrinking because of climate change and overuse, are rushing to agree on a long-term deal to share the dwindling resource…

​Claudine Gay was in Rome on a family vacation on Dec. 27 when Penny Pritzker, the leader of Harvard University’s governing board, called to ask: Did she think there was…