San Jose Considers Arresting Homeless People Who Refuse Housing by New York Times April 20, 2025 Not far from the tech campuses that have minted billionaires, residents in Silicon Valley have lost patience with homeless encampments... Read more
It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming by New York Times April 20, 2025 Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b... Read more
‘Black Mirror’ Showed Us a Future. Some of It Is Here Now. by New York Times April 20, 2025 Since “Black Mirror” debuted in 2011, the dystopian sci-fi anthology series has taken seeds of nascent technology and expanded them... Read more
The Face of Catholicism in the United States Has Changed. Here’s How. by New York Times April 20, 2025 A lively Mass with mariachi music in San Antonio. A monthly potluck for Filipino Catholics in New York City. Parishes... Read more
China Is Finding Ways to Replace American Farmers by New York Times April 20, 2025 Consider the soybean. A legume about a centimeter in size, it is eaten from the pod as edamame or processed... Read more
Why R. Crumb Worked With a Biographer: ‘I Guess I Felt Sorry For You’ by New York Times April 20, 2025 How fortunate that my first parasocial relationship, as they’re now called, was with a genius. I encountered Robert Crumb’s work... Read more
A Different Kind of F.B.I. Chief: Jet-Setting Patel Loves the Limelight by New York Times April 20, 2025 Kash Patel flew to Miami on Air Force One last weekend to watch an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, wearing his... Read more
How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart by New York Times April 20, 2025 Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the... Read more
Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts by New York Times April 20, 2025 On a warm, still evening this month, Corey Trammel, a counselor at the Oakdale Federal Correctional Institution in central Louisiana,... Read more
A Cartoonist Who Tapped His Own Psyche and Found America’s Unruly Id by New York Times April 20, 2025 CRUMB: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Dan Nadel R. Crumb, the underground cartoonist, bumped into things when he was young. Before... Read more
Running backs could get a boost in this year’s draft thanks to success of Saquon Barkley April 20, 2025
Why Is Fruit Becoming Sweeter? The Answer to This Question Is More Complex Than You Think April 20, 2025