Kellyanne Conway faces blowback over KKK leader ‘confession’: ‘What a weird thing to say’
Kellyanne Conway got dragged online for comparing a controversial Democratic candidate to a notorious Republican white supremacist. The former adviser...
AI chatbots have a Romance language problem
You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Adam Aleksic is...
What the Y2K Generation’s ‘Hot Girl’ Thinks About It All Now
When Shannon Elizabeth’s character, the foreign exchange student Nadia, peeled off her clothes in the 1999 summer blockbuster “American Pie,”...
Democratic voters confident California election is secure, Republicans less so, poll finds
California voters are deeply divided over the trustworthiness of state elections heading into Tuesday’s primary, with most Democrats but less...
It’s a Bone of Contention: Mexico and Brazil Are Arguing Over Dogs
The caramel-colored mutts roaming Brazil by the millions may seem unlikely national heroes. Among Brazilians, though, they inspire just as...
His Grandfather Was a Spy. Obviously, He Wrote a Novel About It.
THE FIRE AGENT, by David Baerwald From the opening pages of “The Fire Agent,” we know that we are in...
‘Where we are today is frightening’: a Pulitzer-winning historian sees a doomsday scenario involving China and the national debt
Liaquat Ahamed has spent his career studying the moments when the world’s financial system breaks down — the bad bets,...
The Many Revolutions That Almost Freed Iran
STOLEN REVOLUTION: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran, by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin Before the bombs began falling on...
At Glamour, a Once-Mighty Magazine, a Skeleton Crew Churns Out Shopping Links
For nearly 90 years, Glamour magazine served fashion, beauty and relationship fare with some award-winning journalism. It won a National...
This Democratic governor won in a landslide — and is now at war with her own base
After Abigail Spanberger’s landslide election win in Virginia last November, she’d hoped to govern as she’d campaigned — rising above...
