An Argument Against AI Doom
The latest hacks reveal a sprawling cybersecurity crisis.
Min Jin Lee’s Underdog Morality
The Pachinko author on her latest novel, American Hagwon, and parents’ near-religious belief in elite education
How Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Election
Former Attorney General Eric Holder on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and whether the 2026 midterm elections will be free and fair
Republican Candidates Are Running From Trump. Will It Work?
And how midterm maps and ongoing court disputes are scrambling this election
What Is the Meaning of Mystical Experience?
The novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar tries to do justice to feelings of radiance without religious language.
What Israel Knew Before October 7
A conversation with Vivian Salama about her exclusive reporting that Egypt’s top spy warned of the coming attack.
What Do We Do About the Cameras Everywhere?
A genuine reckoning with Meta and the surveillance state
The ‘Godfather of AI’ on the Best Chance Humanity Has to Survive
Geoffrey Hinton still believes the potential benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh its potential for destruction.
How to Argue in the Trump Era Without Losing Your Mind
Jessica Tarlov on her new book, I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends, and the dangers of platforming the wrong people
Trump Battles Against an Economy of His Making
A high-stakes week unfolds among Trump, Xi, and other global leaders.
What Is Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos?
A lifelong fascination with terra incognita led the astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan to map out the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena.
Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism
Why the AI-alarmism conversation feels off
When Meditation Has a Dark Side
Could there really be such a thing as too much mindfulness?
The Atrocities That Shaped the Modern Middle East
The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore on his latest book, The Cauldron, and how violence forged the modern Middle East
‘The Flood Is the Point’
As the midterms approach, the president can’t stop picking fights.
What Is the Good Life?
The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
AI Writing Has Entered Its Post-Shame Era
Media already have a trust problem.
Sarah Longwell’s Playbook for Defeating MAGA
The Bulwark publisher and author of How to Eat an Elephant on what voters want to hear
Inside the White House on 9/11
John McConnell on his memories of working in the White House on September 11, 2001. Plus: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth.
How the Government Wastes Our Time
What do we lose in the hours spent filling out paperwork?