September 2026

The least popular war since Vietnam
Trump’s war on Iran is dragging the whole Republican Party down
 • Lakshya Jain
I’m with Nikole Hannah-Jones on this one
K-12 grades shouldn’t be meaningless
 • Kelsey Piper
No, AI safety is not a threat to GDP
The economy will survive an AI slowdown
 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
Do I just care because they look like me?
The Tigray War killed hundreds of thousands. Four years later, Ethiopia is sliding back toward conflict.
 • Jerusalem Demsas and Kobe Yank-Jacobs
Can the Massachusetts lesbian Bar save journalism?
Also: Clavicular gets charged and the most popular song of the year you may not have heard.
 • Jeremiah Johnson
How to kill housing with paperwork
It takes longer to get permits in Boston than to build a house in Phoenix
 • Milan Singh
The politics of panic
Even the optimistic AI take isn’t looking so good
 • Jerusalem Demsas
You couldn’t be nice to your chatbot if you tried
But maybe you should try anyway.
 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
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