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Is the US headed for a cold civil war?
A majority of Americans fear that political violence is imminent. But it may not take quite the form we imagine.
The methadone of the people
It's tempting to imagine a future free of the opium of the people. But there's a new addiction right behind it.
It may be time to accept that we're living in a simulation
New religion incoming.
A theory of future music
A music professor tries to imagine the music of the distant future.
Look up or don’t look up: We probably won’t see the one that gets us
Tick tick, y'all.
Is the sun setting on solitary confinement?
If our system of punishment continues to revolve around deprivation, the future will always include some version of a dark hole in the ground.
The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
For the Trump faithful, it comes down to plot armor
It's no surprise that Trump benefits from a feature you've seen on bad television.
Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals
The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.
When we abolished borders
After a while, it was hard to remember why we'd drawn the lines to begin with.
God and the future of secularism
Does secularism have room for elements of human life traditionally associated with God?
Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies
"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"