Towa Bird Can Shred With the Pop Stars and the Riot Grrrls
In another life, Towa Bird never picked up a guitar. She never achieved viral success by covering popular songs on...
Anthropic owes authors $1.5B for pirating work — but the claims process is a Kafkaesque mess
Earlier this year, the author Maureen Johnson was fighting with Anthropic. Specifically, she was wrestling with the Anthropic copyright settlement...
Her Self-Experiment with Drug Detox Almost Broke Her
A 27-year-old woman began an experiment on herself early one morning in December 2024. Her laboratory was her childhood bedroom,...
How Did a State Auditor Become the ‘People’s Rockstar’?
When Diana DiZoglio, the Massachusetts state auditor, stepped onto the podium at the annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston...
Xavier Becerra shows that his loyalty lies with fossil fuels
In June 2017, with President Trump newly installed in office for the first time, one of the biggest battles with...
Reclaiming the Name of the Black Hero Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Sometime in the late 1940s, Bill Chapple hung a sign on a small building on his farm with words that...
In These Books, You Don’t Have to Be Young to Save the World
It could be easy to assume that fantasy and science fiction are a young person’s game. Most readers first encounter...
California law limiting bail is clear. Will judges keep ignoring it?
Gerald Kowalczyk tried to buy a hamburger with credit cards he found on the floor. Then, while presumed innocent, he...
‘Fill the Stage!’ Tiler Peck Says It’s Time for Ballet to Go Big
Tiler Peck has been thinking about George Balanchine a lot lately. It’s not a stretch. He was the founding choreographer...
Astronomers Just Found 27 Possible Planets Orbiting Two Suns. What Happens Next?
May The Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day, may have come and gone, but with it came an announcement from a...
