Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Last month, Carlos Eduardo Espina, a progressive influencer, revealed a surprising endorsement to his 14.5 million followers on TikTok: He...
AI face is taking over — and driving plastic surgeons crazy
Before getting a facelift, Daina Jenkins, pictured on the left prior to surgery, asked ChatGPT what it would look like....
OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn?
The secret to integrity is saying no a lot, and that’s what Sal Khan did in early 2021, the first...
9 Million Acres, One Bitter Race Over Land in New Mexico
Michael Perry, a retired game warden who is the Republican candidate for New Mexico’s powerful land commissioner post, pitches himself...
On Capitol Hill, a Sexual Harassment ‘Minefield’ Persists
Jillian McLaughlin felt trapped. “I feel like there’s no way out,” she wrote in her journal in 2024, after a...
This Narrator Merits Your Attention. Just Don’t Trust Anything She Says.
ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR, by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo “All I wanted was control,” says the unnamed narrator of Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s “Attention-Seeking...
Frida Kahlo: A Visual Dictionary
Frida Kahlo didn’t become one of the most famous figures of the 20th century by chance. The popular image of...
Sarah Sherman Took Lessons on Screaming
Sarah Sherman lives to make you uncomfortable. This season on “Saturday Night Live” — it’s her fifth — she applied...
How a ‘Model’ for Climate Migration Became a Cautionary Tale
The community known as the New Isle looks a lot like how things used to be on Isle de Jean...
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
Kor “got really addicted” to their NSFW role-playing AI chatbot last year. The 35-year-old artist from the Midwest recalls a...
