That quote from Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is a good summary of the fiasco that Donald Trump has made of the 250th ...

At the dawn of the automobile age, four teams set out to test the limits of their machines—and of human endurance.

But as written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Giant doesn’t caricature its subject. Instead, the play ...

The Bone series, comprising nine books largely self-published by Smith, is high fantasy masquerading as kid lit. It’s also ...

Louisiana Republicans erased a majority-Black congressional district.

According to a report from the American Psychological Association, more than half of Americans often or sometimes feel ...

You don’t know you’re in the good years until you’re standing in the quiet they left behind.” Today’s newsletter explores ...

The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.

But a lot of this is subtler—a deepening of the bewildering, corrosive feeling Read previously described. Culturally, the flood of slop, AI influencers, fake accounts, and AI tools is blurring the ...

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

The new film Pressure offers a freshly suspenseful take on D-Day.

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is ...