Because it feels like a good time to do it, some current thoughts on “AI” and where it, we and I are about the thing, midway through February 2026. These are thoughts in no particular o…

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A lesson from history and my relatives on why this policy often fails.

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

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On June 20, 1966, Bob Dylan released an album that defined the trajectory of rock music forever: Blonde on Blonde. Dylan's seventh studio album is widely considered among his very best, featuring trac...

At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm

Woman successfully nabs religious exemption from using AI at work

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A new book looks back at the work of artist and journalist Garry Trudeau and how he told the story of a country’s highs and lows through a comic strip

A judge in Delaware, where many big U.S. companies are incorporated, ruled ‌on Tuesday that a small town that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections was not violating the state's constitut...

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections.

The Supreme Court gutted what's left of the Voting Rights Act. Here's what happens now.

The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.

Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the animal was a Baird’s beaked whale, discovered on the Long Beach Peninsula.

How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities

The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

The most popular Wilderness in the country will become a dumping ground for sulfuric acid

Google DeepMind has hired an in-house philosopher to explore the boundaries of machine consciousness and ethics. This move follows years of controversy surrounding AI sentience and the limits of large...

Students are setting their own rules, judging one another, and often using the tools in secret.

Fifty years later in Minneapolis, the script hasn't changed.

The failsons and finance brokers who own MLB franchises seem ready to destroy the league to make themselves a little richer--and too many fans may take their side.

With federal cuts and heightened fear on campus, first-generation students at schools like UCLA are asking their institutions to defend and expand their right to education.

With all the excitement yesterday I missed the news that novelist Len Deighton had passed away (at the age of 97). I learnt from his obituary that he began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist, but he is far more famous as an excellent writer, especially of spy stories. The IPCRESS File (left) is one of my favourite novels in this genre.

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

Two efforts underway threaten to erode the promise secured by the foot soldiers of Selma in 1965.

Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.

The response to what could be the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done.