Author: Errica Jensen

Anyone who has used ChatGPT long enough is familiar with the moment when you sit down to write without it and the words just don’t come out the way they used to. The cursor is blinking. The page remains blank. It’s difficult to describe how something that was once effortless now feels laborious. It might be a diversion. It might be exhaustion. However, an increasing amount of research indicates that it may be more structural and more challenging to undo. The Harvard Gazette published an article in November 2025 with the widely shared headline, “Is AI Dulling Our Minds?” A…

In Weimar, Germany, there was a building that is now gone. Under pressure from the Nazi government, the original Bauhaus school was closed in 1933; its walls were eventually destroyed, its faculty banished, and its furniture dispersed. It was only in operation for fourteen years. However, if you walk into practically any American design studio, architectural office, or technology company today, you will see its imprints everywhere: in the furniture, the typefaces, and the logic of every phone screen’s interface. Standing in the space between 1933 and the present, it is difficult to ignore the fact that nothing quite like…

Around 2,000 students from Buffalo Grove High School were being released into the Dundee Road parking lot at 3:20 on a Tuesday afternoon when a car tried to pull out onto the road. It hit a pole. A staff member who was standing nearby assisting students in safely crossing the busy road as he did every afternoon was struck by the pole. In critical condition, he was taken to the hospital. For over three hours, Dundee Road was closed. After being released for the day, students stood on the sidewalk and observed. By Wednesday afternoon, the man, who students identified…

Every spring, a student sits down in front of a Bluebook testing app and opens the AP Physics 1 exam in a high school classroom somewhere in America. It could be in a Dallas suburb, a mid-sized Ohio city, or a New Jersey school library with fluorescent lights and chairs that scuff the linoleum. They studied kinematics, momentum, torque, and simple harmonic motion for a full year. The problem sets have been completed. A few of them have watched every online review video. Even so, a sizable portion of them will fail. Of all the AP exams given by the…

A warrant for Matthew Lund, 47, a science teacher at Andersen Middle School in the Millard Public Schools district, was served by Nebraska State Patrol troopers at a residence in Omaha at 6:15 on a Wednesday morning. Lund was already in Douglas County Corrections, charged with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse materials, two and a half hours after students would typically be arriving at school. That day, he wouldn’t be in his classroom. He’s been put on administrative leave. There is a detail in the case that makes it more concerning than the charges would imply on their…

A lawsuit that could turn a labor dispute into a criminal case was filed in McLean County Circuit Court on Tuesday night on the Illinois State University campus in Normal, Illinois, somewhere between the dining halls where contracted temporary workers are currently preparing meals and the picket lines where about 300 union members have been standing since April 8. The union that represents ISU’s building services, grounds, and food workers, AFSCME Local 1110, filed the complaint after allegedly witnessing the university hire contractors to replace striking employees for almost two weeks. This practice is classified as a Class A misdemeanor…

A small group of demonstrators have been holding a standing protest against the Trump administration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., within sight of the Capitol dome and the monuments lining the reflecting pool. They possess a permit. They’ve got signs. Additionally, on April 14, the National Mall and Memorial Parks superintendent sent them an email stating that two of their signs were “unprotected obscenity” and would have to be taken down. The National Park Service was sued federally by the ACLU of DC nine days later. Earlier this year, Accountability NOW USA updated its display in response to…

In Bremen, Alabama, a small town in Cullman County, Cold Springs High School is located on County Road 109. Friday night basketball draws the kind of crowd that makes a 23-win season feel like a community event. Since 1937, the Eagles have played at that institution. Not too long ago, they had a girls basketball team that made the entire county proud by making it to the AHSAA 2A Final Four. The coach who guided them there was a graduate of the same institution. The district superintendent was publicly praising the 35-year-old, who had just finished the best season in…

This lawsuit contains an irony that is difficult to overlook. The Tourbillon, Bugatti’s newest hypercar and the Chiron’s replacement, retails for about $4.1 million. Every single one. The company’s engineering involves materials sourced from suppliers who deal in very small quantities at very high prices, tolerances most manufacturers don’t even consider, and assembly techniques that make an average luxury car appear as though it came off a conveyor belt in an appliance factory. Nevertheless, the North American division of this brand determined that a labor reimbursement rate of $1,350 per hour was just too high, according to a complaint filed…

A woman who worked at Raba Elementary School on San Antonio’s Northwest Side was hit by a car on the campus grounds at 7:15 on a Wednesday morning in late April, thirty minutes before the first student was scheduled to enter. When emergency personnel arrived on Raba Drive, they treated her there before taking her to a nearby hospital. Her death was confirmed by the Northside Independent School District later that morning, confirming the fears of many in the community. The school itself, which bears the names of Dr. Carl and Bunny Jean Raba and is located on the outskirts…