For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.By Nikk Ogasa
Reflect Orbital satellites could make the darkest skies look like nighttime in the suburbs. By Lisa Grossman
New methods could help vulnerable people acclimate to higher temperatures. By Katarina Zimmer
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 9.20.26 Issue features David Wallace-Wells on our age of perpetual climate disaster; Eve Fairbanks on a superintendent who rebuilt his devestated schools; Mark Chiusano on the New York City subway system and flooding; and more.
But every crisis is an opportunity.
Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era. By Robert Draper
A former superintendent in Joplin, Mo., is trying to apply what he learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life. By Eve Fairbanks
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Anthropic Paradox’ – As the AI company’s much-anticipated IPO nears, CEO Dario Amodei faces a stark choice: profits or humanity
Anthropic could be public in a matter of weeks. Wall Street—and the world—are nowhere near prepared for what’s to come.
The legendary investor is becoming chairman emeritus after only nine months as chairman. New CEO Greg Abel now truly steps into the spotlight.
John Cochrane, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, says that rate cuts will lower inflation only in the short term so long as fiscal policy favors borrowing and spending.
Japan is set to fund three gargantuan natural-gas plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Sizing up the opportunities and the obstacles.
With many employees back at their desks, it’s now investors’ turn to start planning their return to beaten-down real estate investment trusts.
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘SILENT RISK’ – Genetics reveal predisposition for lung cancer in Southern Appalachia…
Solution to Navier-Stokes problem has mathematicians at odds over AI’s implications for field
Anthropic says researchers may have used Claude for nefarious work on viruses and toxins
The staple format also warrants a deeper rethink, some researchers say
Skeptics of strategy for the beleaguered San Francisco Bay delta region question whether it will work without allocating more water for nature
Before the Spanish conquest, the history of the Aztec Empire was recorded orally and with hieroglyphs. In danger of being lost or forgotten, Indigenous historians began to write it down.
Emperor Hirohito’s tour of Europe in 1971 made it painfully clear that the wounds of the Second World War had not healed.
The Carolingian Empire was consolidated by one of Europe’s most celebrated kings, but Charlemagne’s death meant that decline was inevitable.
In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake.
The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?
NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Fire Next Time’ – Noah Rothman on Woke, the Sequel
Are we ready for the sequel? Noah Rothman
How the newly contentious facilities make the things we do possible. Charles C. W. Cooke
What America needs to do to keep its defenses strong. Rebeccah Heinrichs
A federal rule change could bring upward mobility. Howard Husock
Nancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in.
The lessons that Donald Trump learned from Roy Cohn—lie, cheat, engage in unlimited corruption—now shape official government policy in the US.
Willem de Kooning’s works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.
Charles Lamb’s camp, mischievous, melancholic alter ego, Elia, owes much to his sister, Mary, with whom he lived for forty years, absorbing her “rambling chat.”
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Can the AI arms race be stopped?‘
America will struggle to make the technology safe while staying ahead of China
Governments are still, alas, asleep
Republicans show that party unity is overrated
The apocalypse is postponed. A mini boom is at hand
Machines are getting brighter; teenagers are not
The transmission of ideas is moving away from text and back to the spoken word
Hard questions about AI in the classroom by Nathalia Alcantara
Mark Brilliant misses plagiarism.
The old kind, that is. Back when his students copied from Wikipedia, and when Turnitin, a text-matching software developed at Berkeley, could match plagiarized paragraphs to their original sources.
Brilliant has taught American history at Berkeley for more than two decades—before that, he taught high school—and for most of that time, catching a cheater was just a routine, though unpleasant, part of the job. What’s different now is not that students cheat. It’s what happens when he catches them.
UC faculty split over standardized test requirement by Margie Cullen
In the spring of 2023, UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova began to notice that about a third of her students were “in freefall.” They weren’t showing up to lectures or doing their homework, and, on tests, they scored far below the average. At first, she thought it was an anomaly, but her observations were reinforced by a 2025 UC San Diego report that found that 1 in 12 of the campus’s incoming students tested below middle school math standards.
The development comes after the UC Board of Regents dispensed with standardized testing as a requirement of admission in 2020. That decision has since caused a rupture between faculty who feel the tests are an important measure of college preparedness and those who feel they discriminate against underrepresented students.
IGI-affiliated researchers have spawned more than 30 startups. Here are just six of them. By James Pagett Tollen
Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna, who shared the Nobel Prize for developing the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, founded the Innovative Genomics Institute in 2015 to advance new applications of the revolutionary technology. Since then, IGI-affiliated researchers have spawned more than 30 startups. Here are just six of them.
Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. ’22, a graduate of the Banfield and Doudna Labs, cofounded Amber Bio in 2021 to address a limit of the gene-editing field: The current paradigm of genetic medicine relies on developing independent therapies for each separate mutation, the company says. Amber Bio’s RNA-writing platform will enable thousands of mutations to be edited simultaneously. Importantly, the company adds, these RNA-based edits will be reversible.
The goal of Editpep, per the company’s website, is straightforward: “To bring life-changing genome-editing therapies to patients with devastating neurological diseases.” They will do so by safely delivering CRISPR straight into the brain. Ross Wilson, IGI’s director of therapeutic delivery and an assistant adjunct professor at Berkeley, cofounded the company in 2023.
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Democratic Socialist Congregation’ – How The DSA Serves As A Religion Substitute For Downwardly Mobile Elites….
How the DSA serves as a religion substitute for downwardly mobile elites by Jesse Arm
What our history and Ukraine’s strategies can teach us about the future of war by Arthur Herman
A five-point plan to fight anti-Semitism in court—and win by Jeffrey Lax
Russia’s real enemy isn’t Ukraine. It’s helplessness by Irina Velitskaya
