The concrete structures and plastic biohazard coffins observed near railways in cities such as Atlanta are part of a larger, often invisible network of pandemic

When John William Polidori sat down in 1819 to write The Vampyre, he might have been a humiliated young doctor seeking revenge against a cruel employer, but the character he created — Lord Ruthven — became something vastly larger.

What was once the exclusive domain of nation-states with billion-dollar defense budgets has become democratized through a volatile combination of civilian innovation, commercial technology, and wartime necessity.

What distinguishes a revolution from a criminal enterprise? Is it ideology? Popular support? Historical timing? Or simply the ability to win and write the laws afterward?

The extinction rate exceeds natural background levels by orders of magnitude. Entire ecosystems have crossed irreversible thresholds. If this is not a mass extinction, then the term may have lost its meaning.