WE FIND OURSELVES amidst a revolution in neuroscience—the new neuroscience, if you will. In the United States the most visible face of this new science is the BRAIN initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies)... Read More

DID YOU SEE Donald Trump’s victory coming? I sure as hell didn’t. That Hillary Clinton would lose to a guy who says things like “My words are the best” seemed so improbable that last summer... Read More

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not... Read More

“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.” —Chinua Achebe THE 2016 ELECTION was a shock to... Read More

IN THE SPRING of 2016 a physician in Buffalo, New York, was issued a 114-count indictment accusing him of “the unlawful distribution of narcotics” and “operating a criminal conspiracy.” The US Attorney General for the... Read More

during the last week of October, I made a twenty-four-hour drive to join in the resistance efforts at the Standing Rock encampments near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Hundreds of indigenous nations and non-Native accomplices had... Read More

Jared Diamond is the author of five best-selling books about human societies and human evolution, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages. 1991’s The Third Chimpanzee is his first book, followed by the 1997 Pulitzer... Read More