If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.

Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.

Racquel Kelley was a civilian. An office worker at the Pentagon in 2001. She never imagined that her job would one day nearly cost her life, and that the terror she endured would never fully end.

Racquel Kelley was a civilian. An office worker at the Pentagon in 2001. She never imagined that her job would one day nearly cost her life, and that the terror she endured would never fully end.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

Dean W. Ball is a researcher on AI, emerging technology, and the future of governance.

A collision of American popular culture and public health is on display in the N.F.L.

Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

Brendan Carr likes to climb towers. This began in the spring of 2018, when Carr was a newly minted member of the Federal Communications Commission and looking for a lane. Visiting a South Dakota train...

The presumptive DC congressional delegate wants to deliver economic wins—and statehood—to DC. In a time of deep political division, he faces an uphill climb.

With the Smithsonian under attack from the Trump administration, one writer found that it's actually less woke than boring. The museum is drowning in wall text.

Online ridicule helped DC influencer Anthony Polcari go viral—and make money. As his social-media star wanes, he’s looking to jump to television. But can he afford to leave his snarkiest followers beh...

Online ridicule helped DC influencer Anthony Polcari go viral—and make money. As his social-media star wanes, he’s looking to jump to television. But can he afford to leave his snarkiest followers beh...

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.