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On February 7, Jeff Sessions, the US attorney general, was sent a letter written on the behalf of slimy creatures that have, since May, enjoyed a collective faculty appointment at Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. The slime mold’s recommendation for…
Long before opioids snowballed into one of the worst public health crises in American history, Dr. Erin Krebs suspected there might be a problem. As a medical fellow in North Carolina in 2004, Krebs noticed many of her patients were…
Robert Wright, the best-selling author of The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God, has written a new book titled Why Buddhism is True. Don’t be put off by the audacious title, though. Wright isn’t proselytizing or implying that other…
I recently heard a remix of “Famous,” by the Moroccan-American artist French Montana, on the radio station Hot 97, here in New York. Montana’s song, which has been out since last summer, is a light dancehall bop in the vein…
Democrats want to chip away at Republicans’ stronghold in Texas. Tuesday’s primaries are the first test of whether the party has a shot at turning the Lone Star State a little bit bluer. Texas’s Democratic and Republican primaries would normally…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants the world to know when he’s in the building. And so now, at Zinke’s behest, the department’s Washington headquarters flies a secretarial flag when Zinke arrives for the day and lowers it when he leaves.…
