Literature Is Becoming More Like a Video Game
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is transforming how an entirely new audience engages with reading.
Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”
How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?
The Missed Opportunity of NAZA
A provocative Israeli documentary should make viewers think about their own moral parameters. Instead, it distances them from the war.
Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
DOJ’s Collapsing Probe Into a Supposed Anti-Trump Conspiracy
It’s buckling under the weight of strategic errors, staff turnover, and, most of all, the facts.
Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?
“ARGH ... WHY IS THIS SO HARD.”
GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health
Weight-loss companies that offer the drugs are professing care for more than their customers’ waistline.
Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?
The people casually accusing Israel of genocide
Gaza’s Open Horizon
For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted.
The Case for Sexual Fantasies, According to Gillian Anderson
The actor wants to show that women can learn from simply imagining.
The Mysteries of Human Personality
Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family, tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.
Can the Polls Possibly Be Right?
Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate, a prospect that seemed far-fetched a year ago.
ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
Taylor Swift’s Audience Is Growing Up. Her Music Is Devolving.
The singer’s music once put a clever twist on ideas about aging and adulthood. Now she just seems to be going backwards.
Trump’s Latest Appeal to Russia Could Outrage Even His Allies
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
The Art of Dealing With Trump
As Canada’s international trade minister and foreign minister, I learned that the only thing that works with this president is strength.
Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
The THAAD Delusion
The story of a missile system placed in a role for which it was never intended illuminates the broader challenges facing the U.S. military.
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