34+ min ago  (540+ words) A brief history of credit card debt. But how did credit card interest rates get so high " upward of 24 percent " in the first place? That's a question for Sean Vanatta, a professor at the University of Glasgow and author of…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1035+ words) Do stoners have a right to bear arms? On March 2, the justices will hear their second major Second Amendment case of the Supreme Court's current term. United States v. Hemani asks whether Congress may make it a crime for an "unlawful…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1698+ words) I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple. Just over a year into President Donald Trump's first term, there had been roughly 10,000 protests nationwide during the first Trump presidency. By the same point in…...

1+ day, 34+ min ago  (990+ words) A psychiatrist explains why Internal Family Systems is having a moment, despite its lack of evidence. Internal Family Systems has become a wildly popular form of therapy over the past few years. Some of my friends swear by it. But…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (671+ words) What an online drama tells us about the attention economy. Do you remember where you were when Clavicular got brutally framemogged by an ASU fraternity leader? Or maybe you saw the clips of the 20-year-old creator " alongside Andrew Tate and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (206+ words) How American immigration became law enforcement The story of American immigration is one of gradual change. Over time, the role of the immigration services slowly changed, morphing from an agency that managed labor and benefits to one that saw itself…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1114+ words) The drama at the Department of Homeland Security, explained. There's a mess at the Department of Homeland Security right now. Recent polling shows that a majority of likely midterm voters support Democrats' demands for reforms to ICE and are in…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1126+ words) The Court just did Trump a huge favor. Will he take it? The Supreme Court just upended President Donald Trump's trade war. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled on Friday that the bulk of Trump's tariffs were unconstitutionally enacted. Trump…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (992+ words) Trump loses, and the Democratic justices didn't need to concede anything. The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Learning Resources v. Trump on Friday, with a total of six justices concluding that a wide range of tariffs imposed by…...

3+ day, 4+ min ago  (935+ words) Cows are draining the Colorado River. More than one in 10 Americans rely on the Colorado River to take showers and drink clean water. But with no end in sight to the decades-long drought in the western US and rapidly decreasing…...