Open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering.

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ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.

Alex Ferreira doesn’t need much to make a song feel enormous. Give him a guitar, a melody and enough room for both to breathe. The Dominican singer-songwriter brings that philosophy to Tiny Desk for ‘El Tiny,’ NPR’s Latin Music Month celebration, where four songs unfold with little more than guitar, bass, drums and piano surrounding […]

The idea of universal health coverage in the US is embraced by party’s left but often considered a liability by centrists

Sharon Weinberger’s new book exposes the extent to which the US government has bound itself to the ‘arsenal of the broligarchy.’

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From Higan in Japan to the neo-Pagan holiday of Mabon, these equinox festivals welcome longer nights and chillier weather with feasting, reflection, and more.

“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.

Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a reso…

Colbert’s acceptance speech stayed away from political jibes or any comments about CBS, and instead served as a plea to the industry to hire his former staffers.