Day 11 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: gazing deeply through time. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers detected five young massive star clusters in the Cosmic Gems arc (SPT0615-JD1), a strongly lensed galaxy emitting light from when the universe was roughly 460 million years old—looking back across 97 percent of cosmic time.
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?
As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.
The party should stop talking to itself and start hearing what voters have to say.
They spent more than a decade tacking left on the issue to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice.
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
What Seamus Heaney gave me
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fits into a long history of Americans who have waged battle against conventional medicine.
Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are making dieting and exercise obsolete.
Now they think I’m a “bad influence”—and it hurts.
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
