RT @nathanheller: I wrote in memory of Helen Vendler, the giant of criticism, who was also an extraordinarily devoted, open, interested tea….

RT @jeremybney: More babies are born with low birthweights today than in the last 30 years, which can create ongoing challenges into adulth….

RT @NoahRFeldman: I tried to write in a nuanced way about the new antisemitism.

RT @shustry: My heart breaks for Navalny’s family, and for what Russia has become. Our final interview, just before the invasion of Ukrai….

RT @shustry: Last month I followed President @ZelenskyyUa from Washington to Kyiv to interview him and his team at a turning point in the w….

RT @mustafasuleyman: power, wealth, expertise. these are all about to be transformed. those most comfortable today - the doctors, lawye….

"One’s entire image of a country and its politics, as well as one’s expectations about its future, can turn on a dime, which should make us embrace Tolstoy with his complex interplay of unintended historical fate and human agency." Robert Kaplan @TIME

RT @simonmontefiore: In today’s Russia, we know little about whats really happening within the tiny inner covin & first circle of Putin cou….

"In Russia, the mystique of power is often won by the capricious deployment of violence: now with this killing, Putin has to some extent restored his mastery." @simonmontefiore with masterful account of blood + power in Putin's Russia: @TIME.

RT @PhilKlay: I wrote about the folks still working on evacuating Afghans, on humor, and on secular and religious prayers in a world that o….

RT @peterpomeranzev: Phenomenal piece about the murder of a writer, a buried book, life under occupation, Russia’s brutal repression of Ukr….

RT @TIME: Gregory C. Allen: China is laying out its strategy in the tech war with the U.S.

RT @dwallacewells: “NOAA data from the 50 most populous cities in the US shows the heatwave season is 49 days longer now compared with the….

Devastating look at Florida's environmental catastrophe under DeSantis by @jeffvandermeer in @TIME

RT @TIME: Jeff VanderMeer on how Ron DeSantis's environmental policies have crippled Florida in the climate change era, and what the rest o….

RT @TIME: Human are remarkably well adapted to survive the heat. But now the heat is outpacing our ability to adapt .

"[Humans] evolved clever ways to manage the heating and cooling of our bodies that gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge over competitors." -@jeffgoodell on how the heat today is outpacing our adaptation to it: @littlebrown.

RT @RARohde: NCEP has placed Earth's average temperature yesterday as the hottest single day thus far measured by humans. This is driven b….

RT @TIME: Max @tegmark, an MIT professor doing AI research, created "the most scientifically realistic simulation of a nuclear war using on….

RT @tegmark: We made this video where you can see how your own town is affected by a Russia-US #NuclearWar, including cooling & famine. htt….