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In a series of surveys, researchers studied when and why voters put up with inaccurate statements from their leaders.

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Maroussia Lévesque considers "analog privilege" and what understanding it can tell us about the detrimental effects of AI systems.

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff take apart widespread myths about Federal spending and debts.

From TikTok to Two Hot Takes, everyone sucks here.

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]

Thirteenth in the News Commons series. I grabbed the spottedhawk.org domain after hearing Garrison Keilor read this passage from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself over Leo Kottke improvising on g…

She homed in on a dangerous weakness.

Tariffs are a good example of the fact-free abandon of today’s Republican Party.

A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.

A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.

Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.

Wolf Ruck continues to assert his ‘right to rewild’ after city officials have twice forcibly cut his grass

The vice president says she is a gun owner. Here’s why it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Harvey Mansfield’s book on “manliness” prefigured JD Vance’s musings about “childless cat ladies” by nearly two decades.

The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid

Lovable Mop-top Orgy Participants On July 26, 1968, Mick Jagger flew from Los Angeles to London for a birthday party thrown in his honor at a hip new Moroccan-style bar called the Vesuvio Club—“one of the best clubs London has ever seen,” remembered proprietor Tony Sanchez. Under black lights and beautiful tapestries, some of London’s […]

Less than a minute after the first words were exchanged between officers and Hill, an officer roughly pulled Hill from the car and forced him to the ground. Hill was cited for careless driving.

The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to tamper with rain gauges on the Colorado-Kansas plains to get millions in false insurance claims

It's not enough for some journalists and influencers to boycott the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Everyone needs to bail on it at once.

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Both Trump and Harris unveiled a mix of new economic policies last week. Only some were appalling.

A labor-forward, no-nonsense style of Democratic campaigning is emerging in the Plains and Midwest. It’s unclear if it’ll actually work.

Using your body’s data to pay or breeze through security is like unlocking your phone—sort of.

The breathless madness of fear

Sabermetrics is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), founded in 1971, and was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and considered its most prominent advocate and public face.

We here at The Athletic Philadelphia are thrilled to have our baseball coverage firing on all cylinders with spring training under way. Our staff is dedicated to providing you with the highest quality Phillies coverage available. One thing we will not shy away from is analytic content. In the 21st...