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Cass Sunstein’s new book, ‘Imperfect Oracle,’ explores the promising prospects and clear limits of AI.

I am about to flip a coin. Can you predict whether it will be heads or tails? You might have gotten it right. (It was heads.) But if so, you were lucky. Whether it would come up heads or tails depends...

Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City exhibit at the American Philosophical Society (founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743) positions the historic city as the most consistently politically engaged throu...

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Even as he assembled a world-class art collection, Albert C. Barnes always saw himself as an embattled underdog.

Neil Rudenstine was born in 1935 and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. His father was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who became a prison guard; his mother was the daughter of Italian immigrants. He atten...

The English-born painter depicted leaders of what was then the nation’s cultural capital.

Portraits of a city. Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians.

Not far from the Liberty Bell, librarians prepare to assemble for ALA’s Annual Conference, which will bring upward of 10,000 library professionals to the Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center ...