By Boat and Bike, Losing Yourself in Dutch Tulip Country
In the Netherlands, each junction of the cycling paths that web the provinces of North and South Holland, has a...
Exclusive: The next wave of AI drive-thrus is here—and a16z and Arc think it finally works
Mike MacLennan’s idea of market research as the CEO of a drive-thru AI company is loitering at Burger King. His...
America surrendered in the information war
The Russian government’s draft budget for 2026 allocated $1.77 billion for propaganda efforts. But that figure just covers overt state...
6 things a neurologist does to keep his brain healthy
As you get older, something alarming happens to your brain: It shrinks. This brain atrophy, which to some extent is...
Brutal GOP primary could leave red state’s party in tatters: ‘Trump destroyed trust there’
President Donald Trump’s decision to back Attorney General Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s Texas Republican Senate runoff...
I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who’s the Robot Now?
I am no longer a mere human being. I am a conduit of reality, a medium of messages. I hold...
The Pope’s Encyclical on A.I. Is Disappointingly Mild
Leo XIV is not quite what Sylvia Townsend Warner once called an “old harmless pope,” but he certainly has a...
6 comedy actors on surviving bad reviews, making their castmates break and more
When actors from TV’s top comedy series recently gathered for The Envelope’s Emmy Comedy Roundtable, any lessons they’d learned over...
Behind an Opera Comeback: A Big Personality and ‘Creative Fund-Raising’
Anthony Roth Costanzo was explaining the idea of an exquisite corpse, the Surrealist party game in which artists blindly collaborate...
The Homesteading Mother of 6 Taking On Big Tech
At the top of a gravel road, inside a small aluminum-clad building, Kassi Solberg arrived at another town council meeting...
