On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama’s prison system, exposing the stark human cost of mass incarceration.
A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...
President Trump left the door open Monday for a potential Palestinian state, telling reporters “we’ll have to see” if a one-state or two-state solution would be the better path forward for Gaza. The ...
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. The opening scenes ...
On Jan. 22, “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 15. Read our Q&A with the ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
The expected recognition of a Palestine state by France, the U.K. and several other Western countries is part of an effort to breathe life into a dying solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: ...
UN resolution condemns Hamas and Israeli attacks in Gaza US and Israel criticize resolution as harmful, 'publicity stunt' Resolution supported by Gulf Arab states, opposed by US and Israel UNITED ...
We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1864 Scientific American published a competition launched by a billiard-table ...
UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and France on Tuesday called on countries at the United Nations to support a declaration that outlines "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" ...
Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...
A “two-state solution” is an oxymoron. The Palestinians, who hold the world record for rejecting such proposals since the 1930s, clearly oppose it. Since the massacres of Oct. 7, 2023, the majority of ...