Readers reflect on humanity’s place in the cosmos.

The temptation to automate command and control will be great. The danger is greater.

Shortly after invading Ukraine, Russian forces took over the site of the world’s most devastating nuclear accident. Not for the first time, Chornobyl became a strategic nightmare.

The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against.

Using legal terms in ways that either differ from or actually contradict their definitions erodes the power of international humanitarian law.

In a haunted novel, memories of a brutal past transform bodies as well as psyches.

I ruminate over the pond. It has caused me not just embarrassment but shame.

His parables aren’t supposed to make sense.

Writers should build bridges instead of walls.