Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats and dogs — the point being that these distinctions between animals that are equally sentient are arbitrary, hypocritical, and pointlessly cruel.  The comparison makes an important point, but it also conceals a grimmer […]

For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it was launched, Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index has found that the share of US adults reporting obesity has climbed and climbed, rising from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 39.9 percent in 2022. That survey caught the […]

Every tech company now seems to have their own AI: Google Gemini. OpenAI’s ChatGPT. MetaAI. Spending for AI is reaching record highs, powering a big boom for the stock market. Even the White House wants in on the fun. So are we in an AI bubble — an overblown investment period that’s bound to deflate? […]

Hurricane Melissa has led to at least 50 deaths across the Caribbean as of Friday afternoon. It has now weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, veering eastward away from the Americas. In its wake, the storm carved a massive swath of destruction across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba as it lashed the region with howling winds and […]

On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said […]