If you’re tired, distracted, slightly feral, and occasionally tempted to move into a yurt with no Wi-Fi and one extremely judgmental cat — congratulations. You are having a completely normal response to living in the United States in 2026. If you wake up, check the news, and immediately feel like
Google Willow: The secrets of the world’s most powerful quantum computerFaisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google’s quantum computer.BBC News On the tech front, I said this to my college students years ago: whoever wins the quantum computing race will effectively run the world. And
Exhausted, But Still Here Some days it feels like the news is not information anymore. It’s weather. A constant, grinding storm system that never moves on, only intensifies. I open my phone the way you open the door in a hurricane—already braced for what’s going to hit
(or: A Love Letter to Culinary Class Wars) I have a confession that will surprise absolutely no one who knows me: I am currently obsessed with a cooking competition show. Not just any cooking competition show. I am deep into Culinary Class Wars on Netflix, and I am not even
“The Day Democracy Was Attacked — and Still No Accountability”** Friends, Today we mark the fifth anniversary of January 6, 2021 — a day when a mob, fueled by lies and conspiracy, stormed the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election. A day when the rule
1. Let’s begin with the thing apparently no one in power remembers: if a criminal flees your country, the grown-up, law-abiding response is extradition. Paperwork. Courts. Treaties. Not a smash-and-grab foreign policy. 2. “Narco-terrorism” is a nonsense phrase invented to scare voters and justify bad behavior. Drugs don’t
The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files. Julie Bolejack, MBA
Celebrating the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, a woman often mischaracterized as a writer of polite romances and drawing-room manners. That misconception does her a profound injustice. In her own time—and especially given her circumstances—Jane Austen was nothing short of revolutionary. Born in 1775, Austen lived in an
Nothing in your life changes until you change January 2 is the real New Year. The confetti is gone. The slogans have expired. This is where intention meets reality. No grand declarations required. Just small, honest steps. Care where it matters. Rest when you need to. Speak when it counts.
Resolutions assume you’re broken. Curiosity assumes you’re alive. Instead of asking, “What should I fix?” try: What do I want more of? What feels true? What drains me unnecessarily? Curiosity leaves room for complexity. For rest. For change that lasts. You are not starting from scratch. You are
Tonight, some people will celebrate loudly. Others will turn off the lights early and call it wisdom. Both are valid. This is a toast to the survivors — the ones who showed up imperfectly, who stayed human in a year that demanded performance, certainty, and speed. You don’t need a
By Heather Cox Richardson The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J. Trump’s second term has been the attempt of the president and his cronies to dismantle the constitutional system set up by the framers of that document when they established the United States of America. It’