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As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the 2024 alleged gang rape at Chi Phi was part of a "culture of rape" at elite institutions, including Cornell, during a Sunday visit to Ithaca.

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A federal fight to end the business of breeding dogs for vivisection. Ridglan Farms is closed. Marshall BioResources is bigger, operates on two continents, and is now the target.

Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history

Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.

This week provided extraordinary hope for animals—both lambs and beagles—even as the movement faced extraordinary threats.

There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030

I wrote this for the eighth anniversary of 9/11, drawing on my 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; it felt right to revise and reissue for this tw...

September 19, 2026

Before you tell me if it’s good or bad.

A view that’s far better than that from a “modern” bathroom. I recently completed a Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) 28-Day Field Ex...

Potholes, plot twists, and the question we’re all asking

The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

In 1972, Peter Singer published one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy

Earlier this year, officers with a Wisconsin sheriff’s office came across a frightened puppy rescued from a dog fighting ring.

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It explains why exercise is so good for older muscles.

And it’s backed up by actions and initiatives that seem designed to genuinely foster a joyful city.

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire

Sign the petition to free the DeYoung Family Zoo chimpanzees to a sanctuary. #FreeTheDeYoungPrisoners

30-40, 35-40, somewhere between 30 and 40 miles for a 7-day moving average is, for me, the threshold beyond which running becomes, once agai...

Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course correction’

Sometimes, what matters isn’t your output but what you put into the process. Think of it like work v the gym

Why a viral graph on US days above 95F is misleading and overstates regional warmth

The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - In response to the renewed American bombing of southeastern Iran ports and facilities, including civilian infrastructure, the Iranian military responded Saturday with...

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Scientists call for better land management alongside reduction in greenhouse gases causing the crisis

Jo Nagai conducted an experiment on butterflies that would surprise scientists around the world. Are memories passed down?

Kerr runs 3:42.66 to take down Hicham El Guerrouj’s legendary mark from 1999.

The media capital of the world is freaking out over air pollution levels that are low compared to those in millions of developing-country homes

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

I wrote in a previous post  that I had second thoughts about my decision to leave last year’s BOSS 28-Day course early  (due to some leg mus...

The Times says federal agents turned up on the doorsteps of several of its journalists to force grand jury testimony next week over their coverage of the Air Force One plane gifted to Trump by Qatar.