9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (247+ words) About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an imposing metal tower, and then, without warning, dropped them 150. .. Today, as history hurtles forward, it's unsurprising that slow…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1748+ words) Texas Representative Chip Roy knows exactly how his own bill, the SAVE America Act, could make it harder for married women to prove their identity. "Although frankly I'm trying to not to elevate the issue too much, my chief of…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (525+ words) But the fact that a sitting U. S. senator saw fit to introduce such a bill in the first place speaks to an ugly strain in American society of blood-and-soil nationalism, xenophobic paranoia, and the puritanical delusion that other people's private lives…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1754+ words) President Trump cares more about getting a statue of himself built in Venezuela than he does about Americans getting cheaper gas prices. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum planted the absurd inkling in Trump's easily flattered head during a Thursday Cabinet meeting…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1805+ words) Elon Musk will have to testify over his role in shuttering the U. S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U. S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that "extraordinary circumstances justify" compelling Musk and two former USAID officials, Peter Marocco and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (204+ words) But well-intentioned programs like product labels that identify UPFs may ultimately be the wrong approach to incentivizing healthier eating. So there are two questions we need to ask as anti-ultra-processed food policies start to gain momentum across the nation. First,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (247+ words) The House of Representatives is sitting on bipartisan legislation sent to it'by the Senate that could potentially help solve the housing affordability crisis. But Republican leadership is too busy trying to make it harder for some Americans to vote. "No…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1756+ words) On Monday, President Trump suggested that Republicans should "take over" and "nationalize" voting. But House Speaker Mike Johnson isn't too concerned. "The Republicans should say, "We wanna take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places'; the…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (865+ words) This story, of course, tracks with that of countless others who arrived in the United States as part of the great migration, mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, between the 1880s and the 1910s, which numbered as high as 20 million. As the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1768+ words) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is considering suing billionaire Elon Musk for his assertion that she is actually under the thumb of the cartels she's fighting. Musk made the comment Monday while responding to a post on Sheinbaum denouncing all-out war…...