If the president is so concerned about staying ahead in the AI race, why is he letting Chinese companies buy American chips?

Weddings, famously, create conflict. Before I got married, my parents and I fought over the guest list. A friend of mine struggled with adding some of her husband’s Protestant traditions to their ...

Emily St. John Mandel writes science fiction, with the accent firmly on fiction. Imagination, not technical verisimilitude, is her strength; she wisely disregards the scientific in favor of the human.

The saga of Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to slap his name onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will ...

On Saturday night, college-football fans in Texas were blessed with a moment of collective ecstasy. Their Longhorns were ...

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Many voters understand that the president isn’t directly responsible for the price of oil. Except this time, he is.

The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C ...

O n the first day of self-defense class, I learn to say “no.” We’re in a Southern California martial-arts studio not far from ...

The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise.

The president’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers—for all of us—of virtual self-aggrandizement.

A few days later, she handed me her copy of Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel about a sensitive young man who is shaped and crushed by the love of his domineering mother. “Read ...