Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.

The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.

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One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

The best solution is to have a policy of addition rather than subtraction

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Since 2006, Nigeria has not conducted a nationwide population census. In the digital age, can we build a functional country without knowing how many people we a

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

One archaeologist called the tombs “the discovery of the decade” as the first burials from the Chimu kingdom to have escaped centuries of plunder.

The MNPD strongly encourages Nashvillians and visitors to lock their automobile doors, secure any valuables—especially guns, and remove the keys.So far...

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Can someone make the madness end? Or are we simply doomed to demented discourse and intolerable double standards and spineless opposition forever?

Inside M Lin’s ‘Memory Museum’

“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...

“Listen to carrion – put your ear/ close and hear the faint chattering/ of the world that is to come.” Berry’s famous poem encourages readers to remain feral. Whether in dense urban neighborhoods, sub...

In Argentina, Peter Thiel has become an avatar for the left’s charge that President Javier Milei is putting the country up for sale.