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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

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

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

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 loneliness crisis comes to campus.

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

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.

From left: Ian Bogost, Gabby Deutch, Nick Summers, and Talya Zax

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

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

Why is the president obsessed with steam power?

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

A man looks at a burning warehouse belonging to the Russian online retailer Wildberries in the Utkina Zavod area, near the village of Novosaratovka, following a drone attack. During the night of July 24, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack targeting Wildberries warehouses in the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg, Russia.

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The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy.

Students, faculty members, and alumni are asking how seriously the school is taking human learning in the age of AI.

The AI boom is making phones and laptops more expensive. Cars are next.

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

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

A small caucus of non-MAGA Republicans keeps falling for the president’s flimsy promises.

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

The trick to winning is to not “know everything.”

People on the right tend to have more kids than people on the left. Why?

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

His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

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

A bookish form of protest is opposing Trump’s changes.

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