He has now made one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: launching a war against Iran. The conflict, which ...

Mainstream pop was going maximalist by overloading its production with digital whizbangery; indie rock had risen as a rawer ...

A woman’s allegations of rape against a Republican House candidate have put Trump in a bind. Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana ...

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La ...

Today, as Israel finds itself locked in a multifront war with Iran and its proxies, Netanyahu is once again attempting his favorite trick: transmuting a national existential crisis into a personal ...

A s Iranian missiles and drones exploded above Dubai in the first days of the Iran war, the city’s legions of social-media influencers started posting. “Your boy is currently in the middle of World ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

Representative Andy Ogles wrote on Monday that “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” He represents thousands of them in Congress.

In the least charitable—and probably accurate—view, President Trump went to war with Iran out of a delusional faith in himself. He believed that the worst-case scenarios that have deterred past ...

About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

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