The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.

Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.

Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. And he has only himself to blame.

Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.

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A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.

Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.

Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.

What I learned at a “Taste of the Arctic” dinner at the Danish ambassador’s residence

Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.

I admire Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice. I am making a different one.

What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?

Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.

AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.

The White House held a summer contest to see who could appear in the most congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action.

Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

At a midterm convention, Trump tries to defy the odds one last time.

For generations, the newspaper has served American military families without interference from the government. That work must continue. And it must remain editorially independent.

The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with China is starting to look inevitable.

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.

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Why we need wonder

The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together.

Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm?

The family at the center of Pennsylvania’s measles controversy tells their story.

Human writers are expensive, and they eventually die. AI is cheaper, and will never join a union.

The Georgia senator’s latest viral moment reveals much about Trump—and plenty about Ossoff himself.

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The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak.

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

Are AI companies to blame?

The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end.

At summer camp, the kids may be far from home, but technology is keeping many moms and dads tethered to them—and anxious.

Would you attend a “farewell to Spirit Airlines” party?

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

Somehow, they traverse an entire continent, wintering in the very same forests that their forebears did. We’re only just starting to understand their secrets.

A plan to renovate one of America’s most hated airports will surely be popular—but the airport is actually fine the way it is.

I barely knew him. But in the last years of his life, he needed me.