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I hate to devote more of my and your time to Twitter but alas, I have to because once again there has been another unthinkable action this…

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

Join Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We, for Strange Customs, a podcast about how weird we Earthlings can be.

The National Archives is selling the storied "tape" — actually woven cotton — once used to bind government documents.

Well-known ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer reportedly received a $1 million advance to pen the prince's book

Delta State University should do right by the “Queen of Basketball.”

The author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better.

Around the world, economic optimism has cratered thanks to rising inflation in the wake of the pandemic.

It's time to recognize all kinds of Black excellence on a much bigger scale.

The hidden story of a 180 year old union-busting spy agency.

Today on TAP: The coverage overstates the problem, feeding the narrative of a necessary recession.

The new policy starts on January 16th.

Devotees of the legendary role-playing game could end up on the losing side of the next big intellectual property war.

There there are things that make us happy. There are things where we find meaning in the everyday. What are the things that give us both?

Science has a crummy-paper problem.

While the pool of older workers keeps growing, ageism has been dubbed the last acceptable form of discrimination

One place is unlikely to be doing dry January this year. Argentina. At the end of the year, large beer shipments were received across the country

Though WA boasts strong abortion protections, we still have plenty of loopholes left to close.

Groundbreaking modeling detailed in new research in the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics is being credited with helping lead to the arrest of dozens of suspects in human trafficking rings in Alabama.

As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this sho…

A generation ago a very popular book among progressives was E.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful. The 1973 book eloquently argued for “small”, that is, human scale things, and railed against big institutions, big systems, big solutions. This small book was … Continue reading →

Furniture conservator Ben Bacon spent hours of his own time decoding cave paintings.