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In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, ...

The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster ...

The Trump Administration is using an “Alien Enemy Validation Guide” to target supposed members of Tren de Aragua, but many of ...

Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power ...

By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s ...

Screenshots of Hinge conversations that were insanely weird. I’d prefer a dick pic to a shot of the back of a man’s head, to ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at ...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House this winter, members of his circle set about creating an establishment that ...

The festival served up its richest edition in years, with multiple standouts among the twenty-two films in contention for the ...

The first season of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending show seemed to exhaust all possibilities for its conceit. But the second is ...