A community organized around enthusiasm for science has decided that a particular category of computational tool is not science but its antithesis, and that anyone who touches it has committed…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
New York Attorney General Letitia James joins forces with state counterparts to defend a century-old federal law against a sudden, unconstitutional rollback by the Trump administration's Office of Legal Counsel,…
Buck Buckhorn
A newly leaked photograph shows two blindfolded elderly Palestinian men from Beit Lahia in Gaza, hours before Israeli forces killed them in November 2024. This image adds to a series…
Tammy-Jo Pritchett
Mo Ivory, a law professor and former Fulton County Commissioner, is running for Chair of the Commission to defend against election deniers and Donald Trump. But her opponent, Republican Eric…
Buck Buckhorn
Governor Maura Healey is expected to sign H.5595, a bill that removes the 24-week gestational limit on abortion in Massachusetts, replacing it with a standard that defers entirely to the…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Trump's 'Two Very Different Americas' post Was the Swamp Showing Its Hand
Buck Buckhorn
Sen. Bill Cassidy spent 30 years as a physician telling parents that vaccines save lives. Then he handed the keys of the nation's public health apparatus to a man who…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Nearly four years after Shanquella Robinson was found dead in a Cabo San Lucas villa, her mother is turning to a North Carolina judge to force one of her travel…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The strategic logic here is elegant in the way that only well-funded litigation can be. You file a defamation complaint demanding $10 billion in damages, a figure so audacious it…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Ken Paxton's detransition clinic opens days before his Senate election. What a coincidence.
Buck Buckhorn
