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Before Ted Turner created a world of endless news, he imagined how the news would end. In 1980, in the...

Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot....

In the before times—before machines could hallucinate, before compute was a noun—it was not uncommon to go several weeks without...

The surveillance video begins with a seemingly innocent scene: A Jewish man stands next to a bus shelter, adjusting his...

When the curtain of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House rose for the closing matinee of Porgy and Bess in January,...

You’re scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or one of the many other apps where short-form video devours your time (maybe the app...

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Photographs by Kevin Wurm “My dad was a big Lakers fan,” Kobe Shaquille Robinson told me, indulging an admittedly obvious...

Why don’t more Republicans defy President Trump? The president’s poll numbers are bad. The war in Iran is raising gasoline...

One of J. Edgar Hoover’s greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting. During the 1930s, visitors to...

Over the weekend, reproductive-health-care providers across the country confronted a puzzle they had never before needed to solve at scale:...

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Last year, I took a drastic step to protect my attention: I cut off my home internet service. I already...

The Trump administration’s war against freedom of the press has reached a startling new low. According to a report this...