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The Atlantic's coverage on Book Excerpts Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power By rejecting the lessons of the previous century, the president has undermined America’s advantage over ...

A discussion on the state of negotiations in Iran, what the future may hold for Ukraine, the U.S.’s relationship with Cuba, ...

The National Science Foundation division the covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.

The World War II drama has been a hearty staple of the film industry’s diet for more than 80 years—even as Hollywood has turned away from the kind of meat-and-potatoes offering that the genre ...

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...

Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical “on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” ...

You, me, all of us, whether or not we enjoy or use these tools, are living through a crisis of agency. The agita and paranoia, even the excitement—over AI’s encroachment on work, education, art, and ...

For months, the dwindling ranks of staffers at the Kennedy Center have been bracing for July, when the Washington, D.C., arts complex had been slated to shut down. How the bruised institution would ...

This is so well understood that we now have cultural phenomena such as Godwin’s Law, the theory that online debates ...

AI remixes exist in a legal gray area. It took me all of 30 seconds to generate an AI clone of Kendrick Lamar’s voice for a “Not Like Us”–style diss track against the color blue. And it was just as ...

If a Ferrari is an object of spectacle, an Apple device is an object of function. The Apple product, whether it’s a laptop, ...