Get used to more absurdly hot Octobers
Other places in California, Arizona, and Wyoming have also experienced some of their hottest October temperatures ever, with ...
Florida criminalized homelessness. Then Hurricane Helene hit.
Disaster relief for people who were homeless prior to a hurricane has always been lacking, as FEMA, the main federal agency ...
Megalopolis, explained as best we can
Francis Ford Coppola’s CGI ball of optimism is an incoherent mess. Maybe you should see it anyway. One mortgaged winery, $136 ...
Nitrous, one of the oldest mind-altering drugs, is back
But the innovation that brought nitrous back into style as a contemporary recreational drug was a little more mundane: ...
The Supreme Court will decide if Oklahoma must execute a man it doesn’t want to kill
The state’s Republican attorney general took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to set aside Richard Glossip’s capital ...
Your iPhone is probably a satellite phone. Here’s how it could save your life.
You’ve probably seen a satellite phone in a movie. Usually they’re depicted as black bricks that let you phone home from ...
Kids’ political concerns are surprisingly grownup
Children have some concept of government as early as kindergarten, said Christopher Ojeda, a political science professor at ...
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
Lots of for-profit models are a bad fit for health care, but of all of them, private equity is perhaps the worst, says Eileen ...