
The Game That Shows We’re Thinking About History All Wrong
A radical tweak makes Civilization more realistic—and more depressing.
A radical tweak makes Civilization more realistic—and more depressing.
Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
A feature that lets you virtually try on clothes has a dangerous flaw.
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
I loved my mom more than my dog. So why did I cry for him but not for her?
A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
The U.S. president promised peace on day one. Now he’s enabling Russia’s advances.
Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill.
Peter identified sources of frustration and indignity that might bother virtually any German: how one navigates banking, taxation, health care, law.
President Donald Trump once promised, “I alone can fix it.” Now he has a different message.
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 happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
Three reasons why even wrongheaded or harmful ideas should not be censored
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.