Year: 2024

Last week, a federal court upheld the extraordinary use of government power against TikTok, the social-media platform that an estimated...

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It is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady media...

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When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017, I was about to drive my daughter and some of...

The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem. This...

In the last scene of Terrence Malick’s 1973 film, Badlands, a recently arrested spree killer is sitting handcuffed next to...

Books are, despite the common adage, often intended to be judged by their covers. Their jacket flaps include marketing copy...

For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for? And for years, boosters have struggled to offer up a...

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley, A. Adamo, and the Cosmic Spring collaborationDay 11 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent...