Culture

Republican lawmakers are openly declaring that Muslims don't belong in American society. What changed between John McCain's 2008 rebuke and today's GOP silence — and what does it mean for pluralism?

Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon reveals a timeless pattern: the people who build powerful technologies rarely get the final say in how they're used. Nuclear history already told us this story.

Robyn's first album in eight years, Sexistential, arrives loud, messy, and unapologetically middle-aged. What does it say about the Millennials who made her an icon—and who are now facing the same questions she is?

AI vision systems misclassify images in ways humans never would. Researchers say the gap between machine and human perception is a safety problem hiding in plain sight.

In the 1920s, player pianos made human pianists obsolete. Today, pianists outnumber the machines. What this tells us about AI, jobs, and the enduring economics of the human touch.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, the only tankers still moving are those that ignore international rules. What the shadow fleet reveals about how ocean governance really works.

A gamma-ray burst from 8.5 billion light-years away has been traced to a galaxy collision—the first time this cosmic link has been established. Here's what it means for how heavy elements spread across the universe.

At the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan, para ice hockey is more than a sport — it's a mirror held up to how the world defines ability, competition, and who gets to be called an athlete.

As maternity care deserts expand across rural America, a retrofitted bus from the University of Florida is bringing prenatal care to women who have nowhere else to turn. Could mobile clinics be a scalable answer?

War in the Middle East has pushed oil past $100 a barrel. But America's energy transformation means it absorbs the blow differently than it did in the 1970s. Here's what changed—and what hasn't.

A new study finds Alaska's glacial lakes are expanding 120% faster than in the late 1980s and could grow fourfold—threatening ecosystems, infrastructure, and 15 million people globally.