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Alex Kane set the cat among the unionist pigeons a couple of weeks ago with his piece on March 18. As a reminder to people, he wrote that “the past is always in front of us” – you can’t just paint ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

Jillian Turanovic had just worked out at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida when, the next day, an armed man walked in the studio door and began firing, killing two women and injuring several ...

Computational: We take random inputs, follow complex steps, and hope the output makes sense. And then blog about it. Computational: We take random inputs, follow complex steps, and hope the output ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris quickly became a blockbuster and has had hundreds of ...

Mark Ruffalo has a message for Americans: Billionaires are the problem, not immigrants. The Hulk actor and Oscar nominee, who recently participated in one of the No Kings protests against Donald Trump ...

When America’s vice-president accuses Europe of failing to protect free speech, the obvious retort is that he is a hypocrite. The White House in which J.D. Vance serves is an energetic foe of speech ...

On the eve of Daylight Saving Time, I flew home to Vermont from California. Crossing several time zones, I arrived near midnight. At 2 a.m., the clock jumped ahead an hour, leaving me discombobulated.