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Illustration by Liz HartApril 13, 2025, 9 AM ET Listen to more stories on harkCheck out more from this issue and find your next story to read.View MoreFor Jay Hopler The philosophers I love believed in things they didn’t want to convert to; the isolation of the thought, of the shattering idea, lonelied them into a t...

Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered universities must redress the balance—helping the country and themselves.

America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

In Alex Garland’s new military drama, soldiers spend as much time waiting around as they do in battle.

Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus, but the left was mostly absent at a recent pro-natalism conference.

The Grand National horse race in Liverpool, a Nepali New Year festival in Kathmandu, a stranded parachutist in France, an anti–Elon Musk event in London, and much more

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past.

Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.

The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.