There’s a half-finished essay sitting on my laptop titled In Defense of Crude Methods. It’s been there for years because, ...

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YouTuber Natalie Wynn—better known as ContraPoints—spent a year diving into the online rabbit holes that fuel QAnon and MAGA ...

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Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and ...

Seventy percent or more of relatively poor Republicans supported a 15 percent increase in SNAP benefits, an increase in the ...

Just as I did so, a news alert popped up, informing me that Elon Musk could soon become the world’s first trillionaire. Cut ...

For the past 40 years … there's been really no room for the idea that slow codes could be ethically permissible under any ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a ...

As auction prices for Ravi Varma go through the roof, his son Rama Varma’s art finds new appreciation, strangely mirroring the dynamic they shared while they lived ...