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Nicole Kidman’s Perpetual Trick

The actor has excelled at embracing female artifice—and then demolishing it from the inside out.

Keep Your Notes App Under Lock and Key

Over time, a collection of throwaway thoughts becomes a record of person’s real self.

Would You Show Someone Your Notes App?

Over time, a collection of throw-away thoughts becomes a record of person’s real self.

What Do Nicole Kidman’s Women Want?

The actor has excelled at embracing female artifice—and then demolishing it from the inside out.

Men on Trips Eating Food

Why TV is full of late-career Hollywood guys at restaurants

How U.S. Steel Got Rolled

The move to block a Japanese company from buying the American manufacturer puts political expediency ahead of industrial prioritie...

Trump Has Not Been ‘Sane-Washed’

The news media doesn’t routinely protect his image, and it never has.

Has Trump Gone Soft on China?

A “grand bargain” with Beijing has obvious appeal. The question is what it would cost.

The Notes App Is a Window to the Soul

Over time, a collection of throw-away thoughts becomes a record of person’s real self.

Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI

Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes...

Photos of the Week: Hat Festival, Marine Ranch, Buddha ...

Flooding in St. Mark’s square in Venice, a hobby horse championship in England, a memorial for the victims of a school shooting in...

Capture the Courts

When justice seems like a joke, autocracy becomes more serious.

OpenAI’s Big Reset

With its new model, the company wants you to think ChatGPT is human.

Where Trump and Harris Stand With Donations

In this election, campaign money has been flowing in at both the standard moments and the not-so-standard.

She Won the Psychological Battle, But …

Will that win her the election?

Social-Media Companies’ Worst Argument

Why are tech leaders so adamant about pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?

The Silicon Valley Paradox

Why are tech leaders so adamant on pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?

The Stars Who Came to Hate Their Fame

Celebrity worship comes at a cost.

Fame Has Always Been a Trap

Celebrity worship comes at a cost.

Tech Leaders’ Unfounded Reasons for Pushing Social Medi...

Many in Silicon Valley claim that regulation would hurt teens from historically disadvantaged communities. They’re wrong.

Donald Trump Can’t Stop Posting

He has begun to speak like someone who is deep inside the right-wing internet.

The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to D...

Many in Silicon Valley claim that regulation would hurt teens from historically disadvantaged communities. They’re wrong.

The Sauron Problem

The mistake that The Rings of Power keeps making

What John Stuart Mill Knew About Happiness

The great philosopher of liberty and liberalism had the ultimate advice for how to approach your “hoped-for heaven” in this earthl...

The Americans Who Yearn for Anti-American Propaganda

Russian-backed influencers with an authoritarian message find a ready audience.

Does Kamala Harris Believe in Evolution?

In another election, she might have been asked.

‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doct...

In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk.

She Won the Psychological Battle, But ...

Will that win her the election?

Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign

If the debate was a cognitive test, the former president failed.

Entitlement Is Not an Identity. It’s a Trap.

In Rumaan Alam’s latest novel, a Black woman’s quest for status runs up against her blind spots.

Netanyahu’s Other War

Conflict in Gaza hasn’t put an end to Israel’s constitutional crisis.

John Stuart Mill’s Three Steps to Happiness

The great philosopher of liberty and liberalism had the ultimate advice for how to approach your “hoped-for heaven” in this earthl...

What Abortion Bans Do to Doctors

In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk.

The Supreme Court’s Effort to Save Trump Is Already Wor...

The conservative justices created so many avenues for challenge and confusion that the Court functionally collaborated in Trump’s ...

What I Saw on the January 6 Committee

The attack on the Capitol was never a single, isolated event, but the outburst of a movement that is still fighting.

The Candidates Aren’t Even Pretending Science Matters

Pandemics? Innovation? If the candidates have serious thoughts on these—or any scientific topics—they’re not volunteering them....

If the Debate Was a Cognitive Test, Trump Failed

The former president’s repetitive speech is a bad sign.

The Mistake That<em> The Rings of Power </em>Keeps Maki...

The show has a Sauron problem.

The Right-Wing Influencers Bringing Authoritarianism to...

Russian propagandists find a ready audience.

She Won the Psychological Battle But...

Will that win her the election?

Donald Trump Can't Stop Posting

He has begun to speak like someone who is deep inside the right-wing internet.

Donald Trump Is Terminally Online

He has begun to speak like someone who is deep inside the right-wing internet.

Trump Blames Everybody but Himself

He can’t face the truth about his performance at the debate.

The Real AI Threat Starts When the Polls Close

Whichever candidate loses in November will have an easy scapegoat.

Trump Again Disgraces a Sacred American Space

It takes a unique kind of vulgarity to bring a 9/11 “truther” to events marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.


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