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When leaders ignore people’s lived experience, their political messaging collapses.
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
The Justice Department is trawling to find perpetrators on whom to pin conspiracies. Ordinary citizens are being ensnared.
In the Ukraine war, bravery has turned into a cliché masking profound social and economic injustices.
Unable to question the government, Chinese are taking their economic frustrations out on each other.
Rachel Dolezal is now a type.
Bogs store carbon, and preserve histories too.
An oil bust is on the horizon.
Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia.
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
The dawn of A.I. comes at the dusk of American sanity.
The president’s effort to use tariffs to steer manufacturing back to the United States can only go so far.
How could so little have changed?
Prioritize the contact that really makes a difference.
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
How on earth did The New York Times, a seemingly ossified institution in a dying industry, survive the most destabilizing period in its history —...
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
He went from outsider businessman to disappointing politician.
Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
Eleven years later, the novelist revisits a guest essay she wrote about marriage.
As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
The problems of technology were there before Trump and will be there after.
This campaign could be a compelling model for Democrats.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
The revival of Japan’s economy isn’t all good news.
We have built a culture that views a death in the I.C.U. as a failure.
There are always elites. The people get to decide which ones rule.
If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.
“Rigged.” “Fraud.” “Hoax.” The president is a broken record.
The Trump administration should build a stronger alliance with clean energy companies in spite of its culture war with them.
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
There’s still time to prepare.
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
One of Britain’s favorite national pastimes is hurting as well as helping.
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
The league has an invaluable opportunity right now; it can be a reflection of the world as it could be, not merely as it is.
Trump’s attack on global institutions leaves us helpless before a growing array of challenges.
This week in politics: Midwest realignment and what’s next for conservatives.
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both.
It’s as though 2008 never even happened.
Four swing states will soon elect the official who will run the 2028 presidential election. The candidates are alarming.
Our brains don’t finish developing until we’re well into our 20s. That matters when deciding who gets the death penalty.
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.