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The Game That Shows We’re Thinking About History All Wrong

A radical tweak makes Civilization more realistic—and more depressing.

An Awkward Truth About American Work

Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.

‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’

The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’

The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI

Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance

A feature that lets you virtually try on clothes has a dangerous flaw.

Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight

To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.

Why a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard

I loved my mom more than my dog. So why did I cry for him but not for her?

The Beauty That Moral Courage Creates

A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Growing Up Murdoch

James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire

Trump Hands Putin Another Victory

The U.S. president promised peace on day one. Now he’s enabling Russia’s advances.

Put Down the Vacuum

Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill.

Germany Arrests King Peter I, the Son of Man, the Messiah

Peter identified sources of frustration and indignity that might bother virtually any German: how one navigates banking, taxation, health care, law.

The Trump Administration’s Favorite Answer

President Donald Trump once promised, “I alone can fix it.” Now he has a different message.

COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin with.

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.

My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?

The New MAGA World Order

This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

In Defense of Academic Freedom

Three reasons why even wrongheaded or harmful ideas should not be censored

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.