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The author on Air Force One with the President’s Daily Brief in 2018

Technology may shape how and what we learn, but the act of learning itself is deeply human.

A jury will soon decide whether the evident suffering that moved her to violence also mitigates it.

An interview with the transgender CIA analyst fired from Trump’s White House

The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.

Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?

The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China.

Experts worry that the water-system hacks may be a warm-up for attacks on the elections in November.

Many Americans are waiting for their kid to be “ready” to use the toilet—and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

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Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict.

The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now.

Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.

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His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

The loneliness crisis comes to campus.

The country may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to protest the war, but mass demonstrations don’t look likely.

Rob Sand isn’t progressive or moderate. What is he trying to be?

For most online daters, it won’t make a difference.

How a show ends determines how it’s remembered.

For the characters in The Disappearers , seeing and being seen are matters of life and death.

The masked web-slinger has been setting box-office records for decades, even as the popularity of superhero movies wanes.

Szabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the 2026 IWWF World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships at Shunyi Olympic Cable Park on August 9, 2026, in Beijing, China.

The claim that the president could not possibly do something unethical marks a new frontier of impunity by the administration.

As the war with Iran drags on, the president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies.

The Brink of War , a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.

The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth.

W e Americans remember our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait—we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead, before we bestow such honors. Donald Trump has bent many democratic traditions, but this one, he’s discarded altogether. Trump has been putting his name on buildings since before most Americans were born. He built his political career atop his personal brand, and much of his second term has been

Elevating a fraud is shameful. Exposing one isn’t.

The crime drama of the year is all about anger that has metastasized into something darker.

Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslims weren’t treated like this.

He has new friends on Martha’s Vineyard. But his tales of cancellation have not subsided.

This summer has been a terrible fire season in the U.S.—just not in the most populated places.

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