Buenos Aires Timesby Antonella Marty, via Perfil16 Aug 2026
Latin America’s presidential map looks almost monochrome today: palace after palace occupied by a charismatic right that invokes God and order, from Argentina to Honduras.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
How to Read the Signal of Your Life By Maria Popova Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance By Maria Popova “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule...
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026
Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Figuring. In June of 1952, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service received a letter of resignation from its most...
Frontlineby Charu Gupta15 Aug 2026
There are teachers whose lectures one remembers, and there are teachers who become part of the way one thinks. For many of us, Sumit Sarkar was the latter.
Buenos Aires Timesby James Neilson15 Aug 2026
In the not too distant past “empathy” was a rather abstruse technical term used only by philosophers and psychologists, but this is certainly not the case today.
Buenos Aires Timesby Michael Soltys15 Aug 2026
Democracy stands to become self-destructive unless it can extirpate a cancer which can be termed electoral obsession disorder for want of a better phrase – something which seems to have powered...
El País Englishby Selva Vargas Reátegui15 Aug 2026
Are scientific laws enough to explain how the world works? Nancy Cartwright, 81, has spent more than half a century asking whether they really are.
Palladium Magazineby Evan Zimmerman14 Aug 2026
We fear that artificial intelligence will escape our control, pursue purposes of its own, displace human judgment, and ultimately reduce its creators to servants of the systems they built.
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels14 Aug 2026
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
Aeonby Consuelo Araos14 Aug 2026
Listen to this essay 24 minute listen Few problems feel more pressing today than housing. Across the world, access to affordable, stable, dignified housing has become one of the defining challenges...
Frontlineby Sukumar Muralidharan14 Aug 2026
Sumit Sarkar, Professor of Modern Indian History in Delhi University, spoke to Sukumar Muralidharan about his involvement with the “Towards Freedom” project, sharing his perceptions of the issues...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova14 Aug 2026
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
Everything Everywhereby Gary Arndt14 Aug 2026
Podcast Transcript For decades, China suffered from revolution, war, and the radical policies of Mao Zedong.
Inside Storyby Administrator14 Aug 2026
Michael Young deserves to be remembered for many things but is in fact remembered for just one: he was author of that extraordinary book, The Rise of the Meritocracy.
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells13 Aug 2026
With no secondary school in the southern half of the Isle of Mull, children must leave home for the mainland at the age of eleven, living in a youth hostel during the school week.
Noema Magazineby Albert Yuan13 Aug 2026
Albert Yuan is a science reporter at San Lian Lifeweek, one of China’s leading news and lifestyle magazines, where this essay was originally published in Chinese. Let me begin with breakfast.
UX Daily - User Experience Dailyby Rikke Friis Dam13 Aug 2026
Has Don Norman convinced you to work on important societal issues? As a lone designer, what can you do?
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors13 Aug 2026
We all love to receive a letter (or an email, or a text) from a good friend. Epistolary poems are just that: direct addresses to a lover, a family member, an animal, even a sworn enemy.
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