This past Sunday, Alexander Zverev won his first major title. On the surface, the 29-year-old’s Roland-Garros victory is the story of a player who, after roughly a decade of high expectations,…

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just a really weird thing. An exhaustive physical description of a brain state…

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Oman, has been effectively closed for over two weeks, since the United States and Israel began...

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

When I first heard rumblings that the world had assembled a conclave to elect a new celebrity zoo animal, I felt preemptively wary, partly due to world events and partly because we still don’t know th...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people—”three…

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a…

Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...

Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.

Google's 'explorable' painting misses the point of art.