It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.
Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.
Exceptional circumstances, too often repeated, cease to be exceptions.
Why promises like former President Jimmy Carter’s, to stay alive to vote one last time, have such appeal
A former FEMA director describes the devastation in western North Carolina and what comes next.
The mass-rape trial in France exposes a case that’s both wholly unprecedented and dully familiar.
Around the anniversary of October 7, a conversation about Israel, pain, and peace with the author of Sapiens
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side.
Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality.
Don’t be confused by Trump and Vance’s word games.
New data on the end times
Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.
A conversation with Charlie Warzel about how the tech billionaire became a mouthpiece for MAGA
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.
Russia has to stop fighting.
Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East
How a changing media environment, worsened by intentional attempts to deceive people, hampers the response to natural catastrophes
The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.