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OpenAI’s Manifest Destiny

The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It's happening, and you can't stop it.

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The Beauty of Earth From Orbit

Recent images of our home planet, seen by crew members of the International Space Station

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Tennis Explains Everything

The characters of Challengers make sense of everything through the sport they play—and they’re not the only ones.

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The Real Meaning of Trump’s ‘Unified Rei...

The video the former president reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

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The Real Meaning of Trump's ‘Unified Rei...

The video the former president reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

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The Reich Stuff

The video Trump reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

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Scientists Are Very Worried About NASA’s...

We could find hints of ancient life in Martian rocks—if we can ever bring them back to Earth.

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Hollywood’s Most Pessimistic Blockbuster...

The Planet of the Apes movies keep evolving—for the better.

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The New Sound of Sexual Frustration

Billie Eilish’s new album sustains a mood of longing that is very now.

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A Powerful Indictment of the Art World

Hari Kunzru’s new novel deflates the idea of an artistic life as a noble pursuit.

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The Voters Who Don’t Really Know Donald ...

Many of this year’s first-time voters were too young to remember what Trump was like in office. Biden hopes to show them.

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The Good News for Biden About Young Vote...

Analysts who study the youth vote say that the president is in better shape with voters under 30 than many Democrats tend to think...

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Higher Education Isn’t The Enemy

Those who threaten academic freedom, from outside or inside campus, are threatening higher education itself—to America’s peril....

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The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help ...

It may only make things worse.

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The Sad Price of Artistic Acclaim

Hari Kunzru’s new novel explores how an artist loses their soul.

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American Beauty

Scenes from our national parks

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The 248th Anniversary of America’s Jewis...

Readers respond to our April 2024 cover story and more.

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The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Se...

Beware technology that makes us less human.

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The MAGA Memory Hole

Many Republicans continue their collective amnesia about Trump.

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The Worst Best Economy Ever

Why Biden is getting no credit for the boom

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Can a ’90s Cult Classic Save the Comic-B...

The engrossing darkness of The Crow

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The Lynching That Sent My Family North

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration

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The Key to Understanding HBO’s <em>The S...

Think of it as a ghost story.

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Voters Don’t Care About the Economy as M...

Why Biden is getting no credit for the boom

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A French Reproach to Our Big, Baggy Amer...

In her slim books, the French writer Colombe Schneck stares honestly at her own life, without illusions or sentimentality.

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The Bird-Flu Host We Should Worry About

Pigs have a track record of hosting flu viruses that jump to us.

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The Engrossing Darkness of <em>The Crow<...

Can a cult hit point the way forward for the beleaguered comic-book movie?

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The Lynching of Bob Broome

Rediscovering the killing that helped spur my family’s exodus from Mississippi

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How to Live in a Digital City

What we can learn from real-life urbanization to improve online living

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New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi C...

Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.

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Who Would Benefit From Ebrahim Raisi’s D...

If the Iranian president turns out to have lost his life in a helicopter crash, it will set off a fierce scramble for power.

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The Politician Whom <em>SNL </em>Is Tiri...

With months to go before the election, the show is running out of things to say about Donald Trump.

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<em>SNL</em> Needs a Break From Donald T...

With months to go before the election, the show is running out of things to say about the former president.

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‘Not Like Us’

A rap feud, a New Yorker essay, and the skin-deep racialism that still holds us back

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Bad Regimes Are Winning at Sport’s Expen...

The agency charged with keeping sports doping-free now seems vulnerable to manipulation by malign states.

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Meerkats Keep Dropping Dead From Heart F...

The genomes of meerkats could help researchers solve some puzzles in human heart disease.

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A Compelling Made-For-TV Reality Season

Culture and entertainment musts from Jinae West

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Great-Power Politics Is Ruining the Olym...

The agency charged with keeping sports doping-free now seems vulnerable to manipulation by malign states.

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How Drake Became White

White supremacists aren’t the only ones using race to undermine others’ identity and credibility.

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850 Bryant

A poem for Sunday

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How Hollywood Fell Short for the Fall Gu...

Stunt work doesn’t have its own category at the Oscars. Here’s why that should change.

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The Political Dysfunction Facing Congres...

“We have a ways to go in our national devolution.”

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The Algorithmic Radicalization of Taylor...

We’re all on the Eras Tour, forever.

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Reaganomics Is on Its Last Legs

Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy makin...

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