Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to...

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Here’s how much things have changed since Donald Trump last addressed Congress: A year ago, he shouted out a beaming...

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Donald Trump has assembled the largest U.S. force in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in early 2003,...

On a sunny Monday last November, I filed into a single large room in Washington, D.C. There I saw a...

Over the past few months, during his agency’s chaotic crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, the U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg...

A year after the Trump administration began the dismantlement of USAID, it is initiating a new round of significant cuts...

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In the week before Christmas, while the U.S. Department of Justice was getting ready to release a trove of documents...

Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to...

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Eating candy for breakfast is not a good decision. But most mornings, I start my day with something that looks...

The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible...

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