Leo’s new encyclical challenges much more than Big Tech.

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 ...

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

Other people have fed text into Pangram to suggest that chatbots have been used to write articles in major newspapers including The New York Times, multiple short stories awarded a prestigious ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, ...

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 ...

P resident Trump has never really cared about the Republican Party per se. He basks in its adulation, and it’s beneficial to ...

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