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WHAT WOULD AN INDEPENDENT TEXAS LOOK LIKE?

SECESSION CAMPAIGNERS HAVE PUSHED TO GET A FREEDOM REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT IN THE LONE STAR STATE. IS THE RETURN TO BEING A REPUBLIC A PIPE DREAM OR IS IT COMING DOWN THE PIPE?

Harvard in Turmoil

Campuses are hotbeds of protest, but it's nothing new. Nor is it as bad now as in the '60s and '70s

COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court

SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.

The Life and Death of a Company Town

MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.

Ski Jump Snow Job

IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.

Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality

\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.

Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger

CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.

Big Brother in the Driver's Seat

IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.

Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.

Creating Our Own Simulations

FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.

THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS

MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.

REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT

CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?

Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'

YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.

The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer

THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.

Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions

EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).

GODZILLA MINUS ONE

The beginning of Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the 70-year series of kaiju flicks made by the Japanese production company Toho, upends one part of the usual formula: Tokyo is already a smoldering wasteland.

THE LAST LIBERAL

Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech

The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics

BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.

Michelle Yeoh

IF YOU THOUGHT MICHELLE YEOH WAS GOING TO SLOW DOWN AFTER winning last year's Best Actress Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you'd be mistaken.

Unleash the Molecules!

How turned science into pop art

Go-Big Experiences

These unmissable adventures will make 2024 a year to remember

Bring White Men Into the Conversation

A very powerful group has been mostly missing from discussions about diversity, equity and inclusion. That can change

Black Voters Could Win It for Trump

Polls show the Republican front-runner is poised to secure more votes from African Americans than any Republican in history—which could tip the presidential election in his favor

Hamas, Inc

The property empire that funds the militant group's attacks

The Archives

1989 - Sammie Harbour, a 27-year-old with sickle-cell anemia, was \"forced to choose between a job he liked and doctors he trusted,\" Newsweek wrote.

Josh Hutcherson

JOSH HUTCHERSON ISN'T CONCERNED WITH doing what you think he should. \"There was an obvious path to take post-Hunger Games. But I made a conscious choice to say 'no' to a lot of things and not really just follow a predetermined [path].\"

4 food trends to ditch in 2024

The start of the 2020s-marked by the pandemic and its aftermath-changed how we eat. Early lockdowns made kitchens, gardens, and pantries the new centers of culinary culture, and the rise of TikTok democratized recipe creation, turning home cooks into trendsetters.

Colman Domingo

WHEN YOU THINK OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, ACTIVIST BAYARD RUSTIN isn't usually the first to come to mind. For Colman Domingo, who portrays the title character in Rustin, his lack of inclusion in many history lessons is because he was openly queer.

Greg Abbott's Bid To Shake Up Immigration Debate Is Succeeding

By sending thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities in the north, the Republican Texas governor has forced Democrats to face the hot-button political issue head on

Riding the 'Wave of Death' Back to Consciousness

The end of life is not necessarily an abrupt, final shutting down of the brain but a series of changes that, in some cases, can even be reversed