Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.
A Mind-Boggling Soviet Nostalgia Project
A confounding exhibition from the Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky poses as an exploration of artistic control and authoritarianism. But it might just be plain exploitation.
A Security Company Cashed In on America’s Wars—And Then Disappeared
Sabre International Security employed guards for the Canadian embassy in Kabul. When a bombing left many of them dead or wounded, the company vanished.
Amazon Got Exactly What It Deserved—And So Did New York
Trillion-dollar companies going shopping for billion-dollar subsidies should be publicly shamed.
Photos of the Week: Lego Bugatti, Snowy Seattle, Cattle Dating
Valentine’s Day among humans and animals, family reunions at an Indian border fence, an icy dinosaur in Latvia, snow kayaking in Estonia, International Condom Day in Mexico City, and much more
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Kamala Harris’s Blackness Isn’t Up for Debate -
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Blackface Was Never Harmless
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