Politics & Current Events

The Question Beneath the Comparison History and artificial intelligence raise a similar economic question under very different circumstances: what happens when ordinary people can no longer depend on their labor to support themselves? The Civil War was fundamentally driven by slavery, its protection, and the struggle over its expansion. But Northern opposition to slavery also

Before You Cast That Vote The 2026 midterms are about more than the names at the top of the ballot. Before you vote, take time to understand every office, candidate, and ballot measure you will be asked to consider. There is no presidential race in 2026, but depending on where you live, your ballot may

The Part We Need to Understand First An American tariff is not normally a bill sent to a foreign government. When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is generally responsible for paying the duty to the U.S. government. What happens afterward is the harder question. The importer may absorb some of the

The Quantum Idea Is Fascinating but Different Quantum physics offers an intriguing image of reality branching into different possible outcomes. That can make it tempting to imagine that every human choice creates another universe or that positive thinking somehow selects the better one. But the Many-Worlds Interpretation does not say that. It describes quantum events

The Old Lesson Behind a New “Glitch” The viral Chase Bank “infinite money glitch” of 2024 looked like a modern financial loophole, but it depended on an old banking reality. Social-media posts encouraged people to deposit large checks and withdraw money before the bank discovered that the checks were worthless. Some treated the money as

The Numbers Sound Better Than the Science Rules built around three, five, seven, and nine sound appealing because they turn learning into an easy formula. But memory does not follow a fixed staircase in which five repetitions create long-term memory, seven exposures guarantee recall, or nine repetitions produce mastery. Repetition matters, but so do attention,

A Study That Sounds Almost Too Good Have you ever caught the smell of cinnamon, fresh coffee, perfume, or aftershave and suddenly thought of someone or someplace you had not remembered in years? That familiar experience helps explain why scientists are interested in the connection between smell and memory. In a 2023 UC Irvine study,

The Brain Is Never Really Doing Nothing Neuroscientist Marcus Raichle and his colleagues discovered that certain brain regions became more active when people were resting and less active when they focused on an outside task. Their work helped establish the idea of the default mode network, or DMN. The important discovery was not that the