Archive - The Rundown from Cog

This week at Cog #38

The Tartan Army, a crime-fighting otter in Florida, the Ebola crisis and campus safety

Jun 12 • Cloe Axelson

This week at Cog #37

Trump cancels wind farm leases, more family separations, anonymous celebrities and an essay from the author of “Love & Other Monsters”

Jun 5 • Kate Neale Cooper

May 2026

This week at Cog #36

Stroke treatment, elections in Maine, 30 years of Guster, listening to Tori Amos alone, and what Pope Leo XIV has to say about AI

May 29 • Sara Shukla

This week at Cog #35

The trouble with rat poison, a "pocket forest" in Mass. and wishing good night and good luck to Stephen Colbert

May 22 • Sara Shukla

This week at Cog #34

A change of season, mRNA vaccines, talking to people we disagree with, musical chairs and a shooting in Cambridge

May 15 • Sara Shukla

This week at Cog #33

My friend and Cog contributor Juliet Faithfull published her debut novel last week.

May 8 • Sara Shukla

This week at Cog #32

A family of polyglots, forgetting how to grieve and reading “human books”

May 1 • Kate Neale Cooper

April 2026

This week at Cog #31

Wartime comms, a ‘microcosm’ of America, driving with autism and bookmark relics

Apr 24 • Cloe Axelson

This week at Cog #30

Nuclear power in New England, Trump’s attempts to make it harder to vote, running as a group sport and sudden cardiac arrest among kids

Apr 17 • Kate Neale Cooper

The Proust Questionnaire: Stephanie Burt

"Perfection isn’t happiness, because happiness, or joy, requires potential and chance and change."

Apr 13 • Kate Neale Cooper

This week at Cog #29

The cost of climate change, ‘full moon joy’ and taekwondo as a village

Apr 10 • Kate Neale Cooper

This week at Cog #28

Why young men are “looksmaxxing,” the power of sending a voice note and the other monster in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

Apr 3 • Kate Neale Cooper