ALT: Death (Bengt Ekerot) in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

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Federal records detail the president’s latest stock and bond spree.

Every so often, they add a tattoo in honor of some long-forgotten love.

Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.

Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told lawmakers they have “maybe a year” left to regulate AI before its development spirals out of control.

Most Democrats have more or less the right position on AI. But their arguments are way too narrow to dramatize the real stakes. They should aim higher.

My mother always insisted that when a person dies a library dies with them. Just think of all that knowledge, she’d muse,

Ghazal for the Late, Great America Gold leaf will not liberate you, America, from this ten-year migraine. The hour is late, America. The “shining city upon a hill” has doused its lights to dusky. N…

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Toward a Unified Theory of Political Division and Healing in America

Sister Ray Diagram by Gabriel Alcala This is not a post about poetry (for once), but pop music. I’ve been a devotee of the Velvet Underground since I first discovered them in college, and the…