‘It’s Our Choice To Use’

Drug users erupt after San Francisco moves to tie welfare to drug testing.

Bodies Pile Up In Seattle

As violence escalates and police numbers fall.

Justin Trudeau’s Self-Immolation

The Canadian prime minister has alienated the largest democracy on Earth and played host to a former Nazi. And that was just this week.

‘Debate Me, Jenny!’

A deli owner and a homeless activist finally confront one another about the conditions on San Francisco’s streets.

Canada Is Pouring Billions of Dollars into the Electric Vehicle Industry

Will it pay off?

‘You Have to Ignore the Allegations’

Roger Waters defiant after documentary exposes history of antisemitic comments.

Roger Waters

Responds to new film’s antisemitism allegations.

The Ends of Knowledge

Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end.

The Cabin on the Mountain

‘Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.’

Deep Time Sickness

In Mexico, people who are ‘touched’—reveal that geological traumas, like earthquakes, can destabilize our concepts of health, identity and even time.

On Death and Love

Does our desire to outrun death hinder our capacity to love.

Suzanne Takes You Down to Her Place Near the River

Wrestling with debt, ambition, and the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen’s famous song.

Purple Haze

Cannabis returns to Kathmandu.

Finding Hope In The Dark Power Of Fungus

Fungi can take on the mess and the junk, the waste and the abandoned, break it all down and transform toxin into life.

The Race to Catch the Last Nazis

A lifetime after the Holocaust, a few of its perpetrators somehow remain at large. And the German detectives tasked with bringing them to justice are making a final desperate push to hunt them down.

The Last Descent

The hardest truths about the Titan.

The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever

Bryan Johnson is working on what he calls ‘the most significant revolution in the history of Homo sapiens.’

 

Inside the Taliban’s Luxury Hotel

The Intercontinental in Kabul was Afghanistan's first luxury hotel.

 

Trans Activists Force Anthropologists To Cancel Conference Panel

Discussing the identification of male and female skeletons.

Sycamore Gap

16-year-old boy arrested after famous tree ‘deliberately felled.’

How Bad Are Things In San Francisco?

That depends who you ask.

The Woes Of Justin Trudeau

Even before the spat with India, his Liberal government was faltering.

‘I Can’t Handle It’

Portland small business owner speaks out against rising crime.

Canada Assassination Claim

Sparks rare consensus in India’s polarised politics and media.

Progressives Ignore America’s Crime Wave At Their Peril

The closure of nine Target stores in coastal cities reflects poorly on Democrats.

Only One Submarine in Canada’s Costly Naval Fleet

Has been to sea in years.

Can’t Afford California Housing? Try Living in a Tiny Sleeping Pod

All 4 feet of it.

My Dinner with André

A melancholy repast at the end of a world.

US Shops Lose Lives and $100 Billion in Wave of Violent Theft

Major retailers are closing branches because their workers are no longer safe.

Time Stands Still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris Lair

The long-contested, now beloved French singer’s home is open to the public, with everything exactly as it was on the day he died in 1991.

The Discovery Of Copper

Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.

US Surgeons

Are killing themselves at an alarming rate. 

Hospital Patient Propped Up To Look ‘Fake Alive’

After dying during routine surgery.

New Zealand Farmers Set For Right-Wing Protest Vote

Over climate change policies.

Stick A Fork In West Point, They’re Done

Wait until you see the new degree they’re offering.

It May Now Be Game Over For Justin Trudeau

The Canadian Prime Minister has met his match in refreshing Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre.

Capitalism Is Dead: Long Live Technofeudalism

We have all been turned into cloud-serfs.

Ontario Town Proposes Bylaw

Banning any communication that could ‘offend’ LGBT individuals.

Canada Launches UN Declaration

Targeting online ‘disinformation.’

Ursula K. Le Guin

On suffering and getting to the other side of pain.

Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Hell’ Island

And the woman who exposed its secrets.

Spider Silk Is Spun By Silkworms For The First Time

Offering a green alternative to synthetic fibres.

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?

Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.

Why Silicon Valley’s Biggest AI Developers

Are hiring poets.

McMaster University Holds Its First Ever Black Graduation Celebration

‘I felt like Black students were going to be seen, going to be heard.’

California School Holds Segregated ‘Playdate’

To exclude white students.

The Cluster B Society

Psychological dysfunction is now valourized and embedded in our institutions. We need to understand what we’re dealing with.

The ‘Other Paris’

The unspeakably sad reminder.

Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed

A broad genetic study has revised the prevailing narrative about how wine grapes spread around the world.