Katabasis is a literal and philosophical exploration of “hell,” unpacking Alice’s ambition, depression, and desire as she ...

Throughout Tuesday, on this page, we’ll be updating readers on voting and elections in Seattle, Washington state and across ...

Our roundup of other election results throughout Northern New Mexico is ready; you can take a look here. There will be some minor changes in the numbers as the final results are tabulated but most of ...

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

Welcome, dear readers to Halloween, when in the UK and US children dress as their favourite fictional horror characters (and ...

T oday, I’m talking with David Risher, who is the CEO of Lyft. I’ll just say from the jump: I think you’ll like this one, since David is refreshingly direct and doesn’t pull a lot of punches.

By sneaking challenging questions into a comic strip, cartoonist Bill Watterson subtly prompts us to reexamine the world ...

Anthropic's research shows that large language models build internal maps resembling biological perception used by humans.

Instead, intellectual integrity should make us open to indirect evidence that comes from beyond the realm of ordinary observation. I learned that viewpoint, in fact, from someone who lived only a ...