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If you want to get rich, a friend of mine said recently, set up an exam centre. We were talking about her decision to home school…

It has become popular in recent years to describe a dominant athlete as a “problem”—as in, this person is so spectacular, they create problems for the…

September 18, 20252 min readSome Dogs Can Learn Categories like Human Toddlers DoThese dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children…

If you’ve ever taken even a cursory glance at a hurricane forecast, you’ve seen some version of the “cone of uncertainty.” It sounds like some other-dimensional…

It may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of war-torn land…

Defending mainstream journalism these days is about as appealing as doing PR for syphilis. Nonetheless, here I am. Back in February, Attorney General Pam Bondi invited…

The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations.US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did offer them one solution…

In the summer of 2014, I was leading a company of Green Berets—from the 5th Special Forces Group—in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province. President Barack Obama had recently…

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets…

While Elon Musk spent several months this year wreaking incalculable havoc across the federal government, he took a special interest in the Social Security Administration, where,…