World opens to the Taliban despite their shredding of women’s rights
The diplomatic activity reflects a subtle but significant shift toward normalizing the Taliban as political leaders and away from treating them as...
What Lincoln Can Tell Us About MAGA
23 Oct 2024 12:50 AMLincoln argued that slave owners’ quarrel with the free states wasn’t that Northerners were hurting their material interests — they weren’t to any...
Can a Synthetic Voice Be Taught to Sing Opera?
23 Oct 2024 12:30 AMThe voice, an uncanny combination of expressive directness and can’t-quite-place-it strangeness, moved from one note to the next with the slick...
Seeking ‘Warmth and Personality’ in the World of High-Priced Pens
22 Oct 2024 12:30 AMGoebel, on the other hand, was a veteran of three pen shows and she brought along a case brimming with pens, including her favorite, a teal-colored...
Trump’s Charity Toward None
21 Oct 2024 12:50 AM“We have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child,”...
Space: The Final Fashion Frontier
21 Oct 2024 12:30 AM“It is a revolution in the design of spacesuits,” said Russell Ralston, the executive vice president for extravehicular activity for Axiom Space, the...
It’s always virus season now
19 Oct 2024 1:10 AMThe reason flu season seems a quaint idea is that we now hear about and maybe worry about so many viruses all year. And well we should.
Eddie Van Halen changed rock history. Now his brother is telling their...
19 Oct 2024 12:30 AMBut the journey between those spots took the group all over the world, through the highest highs and lowest lows of rock ’n’ roll glory, excess and...