Fans of central planning once hoped that computers would allow economies to get closer to the harmonious “Pluribus” model.

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Last year, on a warm, sultry summer day, I was navigating boulders on Blue Mountain in Ryegate with my dog Lucy. I was ...

Sci-fi movies explore many great ideas, but movies like Alien deserve to be considered greats and remain at the top decades ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

In the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Magazine, a selection from Jeff Kisseloff’s book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, which was published in April by ...

Golden Retriever puppies may be the kind of puppy everybody and their mama seem to covet, but make no mistake, they're not quite as sweet as they seem. They are, at times, but they're also some of the ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...

Just one year after Alien: Romulus stormed into theaters, and 46 years after Sigourney Weaver battled a hissing xenomorph in the original Alien film, a new TV version of the chest-bursting, ...