The college that canceled Plato
This episode of The Gray Area was guest-hosted by senior producer Avishay Artsy.College ethics professors don’t usually make headlines that ...
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The Supreme Court has good news for people who like weed and guns
Do you like to smoke marijuana? Do you also enjoy firearms? If so, the Supreme Court has great news for ...
RFK Jr. will oversee disability education policy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the past two decades villainizing autism.Raphael Liy/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s ...
Why the Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads
Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. ...
We’re not as helpless against dementia as we think
I turned 48 this week, which meant it was time for my annual physical. After the usual battery of questions ...
What we lose when we stop writing by hand
My parents started dating back in the ’80s and for a while, they were long-distance. Since this was before our ...
The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood
About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025). In Medina, ...
The US just got its first new sunscreen in almost 30 years
For the first time in the 21st century, the United States has approved a new sunscreen ingredient. Well, new to ...
Trump’s attorney general pick has exactly one qualification
In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city ...
American cities are paying too much for sprawling housing
The housing abundance movement has won more of the intellectual argument than anyone might have predicted a decade ago. Across ...
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