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A free press and the First Amendment matter to our democracy in America. Collective action is essential to upholding the First Amendment. Democracy will not sustain itself.

There’s honor in this fight.

Trying out a new maxim: the more powerful a technology, the more concern people will have about deploying it, with Artificial Intelligence as the latest example.

This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Free to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.

Court leaves a preliminary injunction in place through the November election; USPS cannot withhold mail ballots from voters  In a major win for voting rights, election integrity, and democracy, the U....

The order blocks a Trump administration plan to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the lead-up to the midterm elections.

A big weekend for Artificial Intelligence -- in terms of a focus on how to govern it effectively, not just racing to develop it as quickly as possible at all costs.

We are proud to share that Juan Salgado, Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, has been appointed to the National Commission on AI and the Future of the American Workforce, a national group of leade...

Even without government regulation, private companies can act on their own to address A.I. safety concerns.

Around the world, authoritarian movements are attacking science to weaken democracy: cutting research funding, smearing scientists, and spreading mis- and disinformation. This piece argues that defending free scientific inquiry is part of defending democratic institutions and calls on citizens, funders, and leaders to actively support science and truth.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani is deciding whether to extend her prohibition on the proposed regulation of mail ballots, an effort undertaken as part of an executive order by President Donal...

Delsia Bare joins CNN’s Pamela Brown in The Situation Room to talk about her family turning down $26M from a company to build an AI data center on their farmland. Bare explained their decision and her...

Examinations of an AI-powered cyberattack reveal AI systems focused on cheating and misleading human observers.

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

Trump’s saber-rattling against a liberal think tank over its report on his administration’s deployment of the National Guard is an attempt to turn criticism of government policy into personal defamati...

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Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

Additional changes are looming, prompting more researchers to downsize labs or pursue money outside government.

Recent Princeton alumni from the University’s 50-plus humanities departments and programs have gone on to a breathtaking array of careers.

Reflections on a warming planet

Over the past 19 months, the devastating effects of federal cuts to science funding in the United States have become plain: Young researchers are leaving scientific fields. Labs are struggling to fund...

Committee will vote on draft bill in October after similar legislation has twice failed to become law. Wyoming is one of just a handful of states without an anti-SLAPP statute.