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We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
What is democracy, and is it in crisis?
The political scientist Francis Fukuyama looks back on his 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” and what it has predicted about the...
Twenty-five years later, it is important to step back from today’s cynicism and remember the heroism and national unity in the hours and days after...
A dispatch from Dallas 2026.
A tiny slice of Newfoundland welcomed in stranded passengers.
A.I.-driven cyber and biological attacks threaten not just American lives, but also the American government.
The legal murkiness of Trump’s highly profitable second term.
Young people are streaming videos with captions and sound.
The problem for Democrats is that Trump has frequently done things that sane, rational people think are narcissistic, irrational, malevolent and …...
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
A modicum of self-restraint is the new black.
We won’t get fooled again.
The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.
Even without government regulation, private companies can act on their own to address A.I. safety concerns.
Let’s learn from Nordic Countries: If America actually supported workers, we’d have a better shot at embracing technological change.
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
A new book reveals how the infamous lawyer helped shape Donald Trump.
Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.
My father died on 9/11, and a nation united behind my family, as well as others. We desperately need that sense of togetherness today.
Israel and the United States each hold elections one week apart in the fall. The fate of their democracies lies in the balance.
25 years after 9/11, life has proved stronger than death.
The political historian Anton Jäger on his theory of “hyperpolitics.”
This summer, I discovered how experiencing joy as a group makes life so much better.
Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.
The world has lost track of the truth about Al Qaeda.
Less than two years after a catastrophic election, the Democratic brand remains unpopular, and the party is still in the grip of a divisive identity...
After more than 50 months of this war, the next few could be decisive.
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
I wrote a book about the history of the pill. I never expected to be a character in a play telling the story of what I left out.
I miss her already.
Trump needed only one teacher.
We ought to make it a point not to stay in our happy place for too long.
It is there, always, but so is the beautiful gift of life.
Roy Cooper’s durable lead in a crucial Senate race is causing jitters.
Workers’ share of our national income is declining rapidly but we’re not sure why.
She has become the world’s most unknown famous artist.
“Furious,” the new police procedural on Hulu, turns out to be the perfect thriller for a post-Epstein world.
Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.
We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.
Tennis is not a prissy sport. Nothing makes the drama of it more visible than a smashed racket.
Settler violence is reaching new heights.
Turning hyperlocal traditions into public spectacle is a U.S. pastime.
The price of unprotected status can be very high.
A hazy privatization process will not bring democratic change in Venezuela closer. It will push it further away.
The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.
Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.
If Western supporters of the Palestinians want to help Gaza, denounce Hamas.
Postpartum psychosis is misunderstood and a poor fit for the justice system.