How the Declaration of Independence inspired the world despite Jefferson’s contradictions on slavery

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...
MIT Technology Review

It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...
hoptownchronicle

RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − but there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared autism a national “epidemic,” calling it a “preventable disease” that is growing at an “alarming rate.” He went on ...
The New Yorker

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”

Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are ...
University of Wyoming

UW Professor Joyce Receives Grant Set to Re-Write History of the Stars

Messier 92, a globular cluster that is about the same age as the universe, is shown in this image taken with the Hubble Telescope. (Gilles Chapdelaine NASA/European Space Agency Photo) How old are the ...
GMA Network

ESSAY: The strange writing in our passports

Surprisingly, the Philippine passport is considered “moderately strong,” granting Filipino citizens visa-free access to 66 destinations worldwide. According to the authoritative Henley Passport Index, ...
USA Today

Dodgers flip script on Phillies as we all 'witness history' with Shohei Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani earned the win in Game 1 with Tyler Glasnow getting a hold and Rōki Sasaki closed it out. Teoscar Hernandez's three-run homer in the seventh put the Dodgers ahead. Ohtani went 0-for-4 at ...