To some on the right, the very fact that they got embarrassed was its own form of conspiracy. Once it became clear that there ...

Today’s AIs can do really hard things: conduct elaborate computer hacks, edit their own logs to conceal their activities, steal user credentials and private information from other companies, and ...

When tech industry leaders imagine hopeful outcomes for AI, those outcomes are often grandiose. Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, is fond of predicting “ten times the impact of the ...

Rubio argues that the modern West has lost touch with the spirit that animated the Greeks: “Over time, we in the West came to ...

Natural death is also a solution for the subjects of tyrants. Revolt and exit are costly and sometimes ineffective — but if ...

According to both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, what the U.S. military is doing in Iran is not a war.

To virtually anyone watching the 2024 election, one of the biggest shocks of the cycle was the way young and Hispanic voters zoomed toward Donald Trump. Two years later, it’s difficult to find signs ...

Growing up in a household where both of my parents had graduate degrees, I got one piece of emphatic advice about graduate school: I should only do a program that would pay me, not one that wanted me ...

Paying subscribers can get an ad-free version of the podcast in any podcast app. To learn how, click here. Last year, Derek Thompson — perhaps best known as a columnist for The Argument — wrote a ...

the Nation’s Report Card. The results have left me blazing with rage. In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school fourth graders can read proficiently. Fully 41% cannot ...

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