How an AIPAC endorsement became a liability
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee — better known by its short name, AIPAC — bills itself as a bipartisan...
Francesca Hong lost. Here’s what it means for progressives.
It turns out there is a limit to how far left Democrats are willing to go with a crucial swing...
Trump’s catering truck caper
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Everybody needs a personal AI policy. Just ask Hank Green.
Everyone is wrong about Hank Green. In case you missed the controversy: The veteran YouTube star, writer, and science comms...
Trump takes aim at childhood vaccines
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“It’s the fitness space’s Eras Tour”: How Hyrox became the exercise cult of the moment
Exercise can be a humbling experience. A simple push-up can debase the most dignified humans, transforming them into helpless little...
A new housing politics is taking shape on the left
Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American expanse of...
The left is winning the argument on aid to Israel. The next step will be harder.
In recent months, two ideas that were once on the fringes of Democratic policy thinking — cutting off financial support...
AI models have learned how to cheat. That might actually be a good thing.
The fake identities were the part that stopped me. In late July, according to a report published this week by...
The flu shot finally gets an upgrade
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The FOMO of not seeing The Odyssey in 70 mm IMAX
In late July, Universal and IMAX extended 70 mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey through mid-September. In New York City,...
What an Abdul El-Sayed win means for Muslim voters
The acrimonious Democratic primary contest in Michigan is over: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will move on to face the Republican former...
The truth about rent control
As homeownership slips further out of reach in America, more people are spending more of their lives as renters. Millennials...
Wildfires come for the suburbs
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The quiet way Republicans are trying to undo abortion rights again — starting in Kansas
Four years after the Dobbs decision, abortion battles have largely taken a backseat in national news to other policy fights...
