Thanks to the plateau of per-chip performance increases and the resulting need to work better with multi-core CPUs, the relative difficulty of mapping user r...

For some members of the “Columbia Alumni for Israel” WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

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We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.

On Friday morning, MSNBC juxtaposed footage of former President Ronald Reagan somberly addressing the nation after the 1986 Challenger explosion that shocked the nation in 1986 with Donald Trump's finger-pointing press conference to address a commercial plane crash over the Potomac two days ago.Intr...

President Trump at moments of national tragedy has always been more comfortable finding fault than providing comfort or expressing empathy.

A thought experiment: At some fundamental levels, the nature of organizations is very similar to the nature of distributed systems.

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The late president was often criticized as too passive in engaging a new U.S. enemy. But evidence from the time shows his attempted interventions were forceful—just misguided

Elon Musk is once again threatening to sue over speech he dislikes — this time, over factual headlines about a deadly explosion involving a Tesla Cybertruck. But not liking how a story is framed do…

The mass murder in New Orleans and Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas fit a troubling pattern among U.S. vets, research says.

By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs  Following a period when homele…

More than 3,000 Native American children died in the custody of the U.S. government after being forced to attend so-called Indian boarding schools, according to an investigation by The Washington…