Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack

The soaring cost of health care is a problem for Republicans

In my forthcoming debut novel, the Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, nearly every terrible thing that can happen to a man has happened to the titular character, a terrible person in hi…

A militarização da vida política brasileira não é fenômeno recente, nem excepcional. Desde o século 19, a fronteira entre autoridade civil e militar é borrada por práticas que naturalizam a coerção como instrumento de governo

Twenty years after "An Inconvenient Truth," the man still has faith.

In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Trump’s broken world order, Carney’s new one, and is Kevin Warsh the new Paul Volcker?

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

The early-childhood program faces a renewed assault by the Trump Administration.

“Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

Sebos de vários países começaram a receber pedidos volumosos de livros antigos; saiba o que está por trás disso e porque esses vários desses livros estão sendo destruídos.

SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently – by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere. Michael Marshall explores

If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as...

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

Doctors describe the daily agony and exhaustion of trying (and often failing) to persuade parents to vaccinate their children.

The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement

Neoliberalism as an overarching ideology for UK government died with the Brexit referendum in 2016, just as it did in the US with Trump’s ...

Before busing, Boston’s civil rights leaders, community activists, neighborhood advocates and clergy collectively devised a solution for…

A new book by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff explains why Elon Musk has increasingly chosen to use his wealth and power to advance far-right politics and why he advocates accelerating the integration...

AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world. Now, a fresh kind of machine intelligence that does just that is emerging

The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 5 August · 1hr 15min

Britain’s employment courts are clogged with AI cases

Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Jean-Paul Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason...

In a recent post, where I discussed the Conservative party’s newfound opposition to net zero, I noted that one attraction that switch had ...

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.

We wouldn't be aspiring for Black inclusion in the White imagination if we had more Black heroes and heroines.