Could They Be Ghosts?

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 28th

“Every time I start to think about the water, Trump comes up with another stupid distraction.”

The New Yorker’s In the Dark Wins a 2025 Peabody Award

The New Yorker’s longform investigative podcast, In the Dark, has won a 2025 Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in journalism. The series received the prize, in the Podcast & Radio category, for its third season, a nine-episode series that examined the killings of twenty-five Iraqi civilians, in 2005, at the hands of U.S. […]

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

All this suggests that there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy. Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined geopolitics for more […]