Nearly two decades ago, a group of researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory ran a secret experiment, known as the...

Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see...

Throughout the Trump era, Democrats have wrung their hands about how they can win over working-class voters. Why not ask...

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Is AI going to kill us all? In Silicon Valley, it’s not such a novel question. But after Anthropic employee...

Why do I cry when I see a donkey? It’s completely involuntary. As if my heart’s defenses are swept aside...

On stage at Davos in the Swiss Alps earlier this year, Bill Gates, before an audience of the global do-gooding...

If you felt a gust of wind late on Friday, it came from hundreds of immigration lawyers who simultaneously exhaled...

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Two years ago, Marineland of Canada — a theme park in Niagara Falls that trained beluga whales, dolphins, and other...

Anti-Muslim messaging has been on the rise among Republican elected officials for a while, and last week it took center...

Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been warning about their creations’ capabilities for many years,...

On Monday evening, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in United States Postal Service v. California — the...