Humans have relied on animals to gain scientific knowledge at least since ancient Greece, when it was forbidden to dissect humans, and physicians turned to beasts instead. Sometimes the use of animals introduced errors into anatomical knowledge, but much of what we know about the human body came from animal dissection. To take one example, […]
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A series of violent clashes also took place in Portland, Oregon, during this period between alt-right groups and antifa with police usually intervening against the latter. Claims and counterclaims make it difficult to know who started what. The highest-profile clash involving antifa, however, took place on August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville during the “Unite the […]
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In his work, Kidia sees many cases in which personal and financial misfortune results in health problems. In his early days of clinical training as a med student, he meets Sheila, who had come to the hospital for a scheduled colonoscopy and been seized by chest pain. Asked by a colleague to interpret her electrocardiogram, […]
Read More In his work, Kidia sees many cases in which personal and financial misfortune results in health problems. In his early days of clinical training as a med student, he meets Sheila, who had come to the hospital for a scheduled colonoscopy and been seized by chest pain. Asked by a colleague to interpret her electrocardiogram, […]
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Yet none of these MAGA-lebrities have leveraged their sway over the red-hatted base to build momentum for a neo-Prohibition. Trump himself has marketed vodka in the past, and his son Eric owns a winery in Virginia. A political movement against booze, this ain’t—not yet, at least. Critiques from more outspoken opponents like YouTube Svengali Jordan […]
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The boxing studio was small and designed in sleek black: black walls, black floors, big windows overlooking the snowy center of Warsaw. The women, some in their twenties, some decades older, some fit, some just getting there, stood in pairs. All were Ukrainian refugees who had found shelter in the Polish capital since Russia invaded […]
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Antonia, meanwhile, has no partner. She spent her twenties married to the academic job market as a scholar of postcolonial eco-literature, and for her efforts, she is now on the cusp of securing a tenure-track position and of publishing her second academic book. A hybrid work of cultural analysis, it argues “that climate change, as […]
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But it is noteworthy that he will not stand up to the likes of Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, and particularly Putin, the more brazenly cutthroat of the two. Imagine a president of the United States on the verge of sending potentially nation-saving missiles to Ukraine and then being talked out of it by Putin […]
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After the metal detector, there was no pat down. A guard marked my wrist with ultraviolet ink that shone in blacklight. Since I had cleared the background check, my books were my identification. The inmates sat in bleachers of the big gymnasium where the sultry air smelled of perspiration and weights. After I read each […]
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And you have long since outlivedthe scene where he buriedhis Swiss Army knife in the planting box outside the courthouseto avoid setting off alarms—as if you twohadn’t already createdalarms enough, hadn’t sufficiently frightenedand injured each other, which is whyyou found yourselves in a courtroom.And that wasso many years ago, you can now observethose figures dispassionately, […]
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“I see the 2010s as the turning point,” Wu told me. Initially, Wu writes in his 2025 book, The Age of Extraction, the web was built on public platforms equivalent to the town square—ARPANET, the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET, and private businesses tamed by antitrust actions (the phone companies and Microsoft). As newer platforms like […]
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I had always read James Baldwin’s declaration “I want to be an honest man and a good writer” as a statement of artistic ambition—the kind of thing a young person, defining themselves for the world, says in order to be taken seriously. It comes at the end of “Autobiographical Notes,” the introduction to his first […]
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On February 26 of this year, all the systems went down at The Pitt. Up to that point, the doctors and nurses and interns working in the emergency room at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center—colloquially, “the Pitt”—had already dealt with a cascade of isolated catastrophes, from an abandoned baby to an unexpectedly violent patient […]
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Before Donald Trump’s recent military campaigns, Iran and Venezuela weren’t often spoken of in the same breath. But in fact, the countries share much in common. They’ve both been demonized as evil, as bad guys, formally designated as states that promote terrorism. They’ve both suffered under intensive sanctions that have damaged life for civilians. And […]
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In one corner is the sacredly monstrous Julian, a mutant combination of living legend and cautionary tale, who has treated his own cancellation as a form of house arrest. Several years ago, Julian parlayed his celebrity into a talking-head spot on a reality show called Art Fight, a gig he treated, like most of his […]
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Scheiber spends a lot of time in the present tense, analyzing the surface textures of these union campaigns themselves. The book serves up generous portions of the play-by-play of organizing and contract negotiations of workers at Apple, Starbucks, and even the resurgent United Auto Workers under the crusading president Shawn Fain. In one bargaining session […]
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