The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

The restrictions were released just over a week before the school year and come amid a national backlash against the use of artificial intelligence.

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.

Musk’s transformation into a hyperactive super-troll reveals essential features of his economic vision.

I wasn’t getting the bang for my buck in my red-state redoubt. But if I hadn’t moved, I might never have found out how good it could get.

Musk’s transformation into a hyperactive super-troll reveals essential features of his economic vision.

The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.

The urban professionals who transformed American cities and tastes and pulled the Democratic Party to the right are a dying breed.

Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.

The Washington Monthly announces the 2026 Kukula Award finalists, honoring excellence in nonfiction book reviewing.

In John Carney’s movies, music connects people where conversation cannot. But in his latest, it opens a wound.

They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations?

There may be a day again when TV executives have the backbone to support a show like Colbert’s. But The Late Show will be gone.

In “Yesteryear,” an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science re...

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

Steven Conrad’s miniseries on HBO begins like a murder mystery, but turns into something weirder and more beautiful.

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.