The translator of Homer’s epic is done talking about her harsh movie review—but eager to translate the poem again.

We accumulate knowledge until, we hope, the uncertainty disappears. But what if uncertainty never fully goes away? In a ...

With less than two months until the midterm elections, some Republican lawmakers appear to be distancing themselves from ...

Anxiety about AI in the United States appears to be getting worse. Prosaic concerns about machines disrupting industries, ...

Andy Masley is a writer and researcher focused on AI safety and policy, working on a grant from Coefficient Giving. His writing can be found on his Substack and website.

Each of these record-scratch moments is a distinctive product of the Trump era. The desire to resist the president continues ...

The accomplishments of athletes are every bit as impressive and legitimate as those of dancers, debaters, and oboists.

As the build-out of AI data centers has accelerated, the public has tended to focus on every possible downside of these ...

The far-right parties the White House favors have a foreign-policy agenda that won’t serve American interests.

The president announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost.

A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

On paper, the Kennedy Center had an extraordinary financial year. It reported more than $516 million in total revenue on its ...