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The Left’s Self-Defeating Israel Obsession
Taking an extreme position, then demanding total orthodoxy, does no favors for democratic socialism in America.
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A Searing Reminder That Trump Is Unwell
His bizarre diatribe at the RNC shows why the pro-democracy coalition is so worried about beating...
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Can a Bot Be Too Good at Its Job?
AI agents can automate complex tasks on behalf of human operators—with potentially disastrous consequences.
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Whoops! The Internet Broke.
Massive outages caused by a cloud-computing bug are the new normal.
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J. D. Vance’s Empty Nationalism
To believe that “people will not fight for abstractions” is to forget what makes America special.
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The Books That Keep Readers Awake at Night
A certain kind of novel can push you to stretch one day into the early hours...
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The Biden Campaign Just Can’t Stop Meme-ing
The president is relentlessly trolling Trump—on Trump’s own social-media site.
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What the Microsoft Outage Reveals
We discover the fragility of our technological infrastructure only when it’s too late.
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The Fakest Populism You Ever Saw
The Trumpian GOP is in a battle over which wealthy faction will win, not a class...
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It’s Official: The Supreme Court Ignores Its Own Precedent
The Roberts Court has violated its own logic with the ruling on executive immunity. Donald Trump...
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How I Faked My Way to Rock Stardom
In pretending to be John Fogerty, I became myself.
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Photos of the Week: Gruffalo Maze, Panama Swing, Luminous Mane
An orangutan rehabilitation center in Borneo, an iceberg-filled fjord in Greenland, scenes from the Republican National...
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The New Trump Is Always the Old Trump
Thursday’s speech was a fitting climax to a confused convention that spun wildly between partisan culture...
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The Democrats Aren’t Even Trying
They’re acting as if they already lost the election.
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More Business Leaders Are Warming to Trump’s Pitch
But adding Vance to the ticket could complicate things.
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Trump Signals Weakness to Xi Jinping
He’s all but said he wouldn’t defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. What else would he...
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‘I Think It’s Happening’
The lone senator who has called on Biden to withdraw is growing confident that the president...
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Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human
They’re part of a growing list of animals that use namelike calls.
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Please See ‘Twisters’ in Theaters
The film might seem like an unnecessary sequel, but it squeezes a lot of juice out...
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The Cheapness of Luxury
In Yasmin Zaher’s new novel, the promise of exclusivity is a facade.