Monday, September 21, 2026
ArchiveBanished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
An Iranian woman stepped off a shackled flight into an African country she didn't know existed. She's one of thousands moved under deals Washington has never published.
Major TV Networks Band Together in Boycott After Trump’s Ban on CNN
Fox and CNN agreeing on something is rare enough. All five networks have now stopped filming the president rather than accept a rival's expulsion from the pool.
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
A Fields medalist asks whether his own field still needs humans, and declines every comfortable answer. What he thinks mathematicians are actually for is stranger than the debate allows.
The Most Important Decryption Machine Ever Built
The Poles cracked Enigma before the war even began, and the machine built to keep beating it is an ancestor of the device you're reading this on. Watch the gears, not the legend.
The Curious Power of Punctuation
Austen's famous opening line isn't the one you remember, and her commas were largely her printers'. How much of a writer's voice was quietly inserted by someone else?