On becoming more transactional

The president failed to deliver on his Iran bluster, and in the end fooled only himself.

Why can’t language models write well?

Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force.

On why you are definitely not the problem

Peer review has met its match.

In an increasingly interconnected world, prosociality across group boundaries becomes ever more important. Yet, a common premise in the behavioral ...

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

When riffing, the president exhibits an unusual tell.

Throughout the course of my years in graduate school, I kept a running list of the best advice given to me, and the strategies that helped…

Psychology presents itself as deeply empirical and quantitative.

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The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

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In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings

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Anthropogenic sediment disturbances reduce natural marine carbon sequestration by 2 to 8 Tg CO2 year−1.

A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Strange Arithmetic of Compassion

Avoid progressive pieties and rebuild an effective democratic majority

Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

What happens when the anti-establishment becomes the establishment?

This misery and chaos presents an opportunity to do something remarkable. We should not waste it.

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