Wednesday, October 28, 2026
ArchiveUncertainty in Israel After Election Results
Tel Aviv went strangely quiet when the projections landed. Record Arab-Israeli turnout, a right-wing bloc that held, and a coalition math problem nobody has solved yet.
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
The comparison WIRED reaches for isn't hyperbole — it's the FBI's files on the civil rights movement. Only this time the agency doing the watching is the one running deportations.
Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection
Embryo screening is sold as parental choice. The author — who grew up being told his body was the problem — takes that premise apart from the inside, and he is not comfortable about it.
How I Survived Late-Stage Cancer (A Fun Story)
A channel famous for animating extinction and black holes finally points the explainer at itself. The science of cisplatin, delivered by someone it nearly killed and then saved.
The Ledger and the Blade
Monica Seles was stabbed courtside by a stranger who wanted a different woman to win. Thirty years later, the essay argues, we've all been handed the tools that man had to improvise.