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

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

For months, the dwindling ranks of staffers at the Kennedy Center have been bracing for July, when the Washington, D.C., arts ...

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

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

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

When it comes to the government’s relationship with business, Donald Trump is the most activist president since Franklin D.

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 ...

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

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, ...

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.

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 ...