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Are AI companies to blame?

A drone hovers over railway tracks in a Russian-occupied location in Ukraine’s Kherson region.

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

The party has been backing independent Senate candidates in red states. But Montana is not working as planned.

Charlie Surfs Up barks as he is pushed through the breakers in the second heat of very large dogs during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, California, on August 3, 2024.

Margaret Hoover on Herbert Hoover’s life, presidency, and legacy, and the renovation of his presidential library. Plus: Trump’s dropped Reflecting Pool indictment and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré

A new film about Anthony Bourdain uses its subject to examine how a young person comes to love cooking.

Why young people are giving up on love

The luxury automaker is beaming a Spider-Man ad into its cars.

Abdul El-Sayed called out Democrats. Now he needs to bring them together.

The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them wrong.

Kids sent away during the summer used to get true distance from their parents. No longer.

The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance.

Evacuation has become a familiar, terrible summer ordeal.

Would you attend a “farewell to Spirit Airlines” party?

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

The House speaker doesn’t want to get involved in the Max Miller scandal—or anything else that might seem like part of his basic duties as a leader.

Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in.

Leftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise.

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.

A new Truth Social subscription service is another way for the president to profit from his office.

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not the case for everyone.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.

The Vatican excommunicated 700 arch-traditionalist bishops and priests—a rupture that touches on broader disputes in the Church today.

Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is.

The Trump administration would like you to worry like it’s 1979.

Even if the Iran war ends tomorrow, don’t expect relief at the pump any time soon.

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

Republicans have been slow to call for an Ohio congressman to end his reelection campaign.

The president would rather condemn Minnesota than Iran.

The president’s big gains with Black, Hispanic, and young voters in 2024 suggested a major shift. Less than two years later, he has lost those new supporters.

People watch as massive plumes of smoke rise from a wildfire in Spokane, Washington, on August 1, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social-media video.

America needs a bigger plan to control its tick problem.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the throes of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history. Could it have been prevented?

The power plant at the former Androscoggin paper mill

Young kids shouldn’t have screen time, a new report warns. But who can afford to follow that advice?

Allies that depend on U.S. military equipment need a Plan B.

Researchers warn that the design of chatbots is a “perfect storm” for anxiety.