Friday, October 2, 2026
ArchiveA Terrible Way to Die, a Terrifying Way to Survive
The Supreme Court cleared the way at 6 p.m.; the execution team then spent nearly an hour hunting for a vein. Bruenig's case is that lethal injection has now failed by its own stated standard.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Billions of plate scans, 'approaching dragnet-type law enforcement,' and a judge who finally said so in a federal ruling. The cameras on your commute just lost a court case.
400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Why is a man who ruled by terror being quietly restored to Russian public memory? Hill, who has sat across from Putin, traces what a leader borrowing a dictator's reputation is actually buying.
Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs’ distinctive path to flight
Feathered limbs on an animal nobody knew existed, pressed into Chinese rock. The evidence keeps pointing the same strange direction: flight was invented more than once.
How effective altruism conquered the world
A movement that started with philosophy PhDs asking 'how do we do the most good?' somehow became influential enough to reshape global institutions—and now faces its reckoning.