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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

The loneliness crisis comes to campus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consumers are ditching the hype cycle and buying used devices in unprecedented numbers.

For years, the tech industry has portrayed Chinese AI development as an existential threat. The truth is not so straightforward.

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.

Why is the president obsessed with steam power?

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

Even if the fertility decline doesn’t reverse itself anytime soon, the consequences are unlikely to be apocalyptic.

Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better.

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

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

A new channel on Roku’s TV service offers all-you-can-eat AI programming. I binged eight hours of it.