Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the recent research into the neurodiverse syndromes known as aphantasia and hyperphantasia, their effects on our experience of trauma and memory, and the sense of identity that has grown up around them.

The federal government shutdown means heating aid will not be released Nov. 1, leading to stark worries from those who manage the program.

Well, well, well. Look who it is. The global academic, scientific, and pro-fact community. I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film.

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

They were journalists at major news outlets in New York and D.C. before taking big pay cuts to run the Midcoast Villager, a paper covering a rocky, coastal part of Maine.

Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.

Trump's crypto windfall represents a mixing of personal and government interests at an unprecedented scale.

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia.