Nixa resident Robert Haslag shares three proposals for improving American democracy and our opinions of our fellow citizens.

Democrats don’t need to abandon their values to win. They just need to translate them into things people can touch, feel, and ...

When I first met Amos Oz amid the 1982 Lebanese War, which we both condemned, he was an internationally renowned novelist and ...

The water temperature of the Rhine River could rise by up to 4.2° degrees Celsius by the end of the century due to the ...

However, her exit comes just a day after X’s Grok AI chatbot was found posting anti-Semitic material, reigniting scrutiny over the platform’s content moderation policies.

In this era of growing threats to democracy, what can a young person do who aspires to follow in Bill Moyers’ footsteps – whether in journalism or public life? Woodruff asked Moyers that question, to ...

Metropolis Why Free Buses in NYC Could End Up Backfiring Horribly Zohran Mamdani has some great ideas for transit. His flashiest promise isn’t one of them.

It is a design choice to use algorithms that find the most emotional or outrageous content to show users ... participants to propose and vote on policy ideas using what they call “computational ...

Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” Amen, amen. Happy Independence Day. May your barbecues, like this newsletter, be whole hog.

One of Iran’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities there will turn on their own people to consolidate power in the aftermath of the 12-day war with Israel.

Democracy and capitalism won’t be strengthened by charisma, cunning or exploitative ambition, but by people who answer a deeper calling to do “good work”: work that builds trust and strengthens the ...