Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills help drive the increase

Discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in key parts of the economy Quick Summary Several quantum-computing companies are negotiating with the Commerce Department for federal funding in exchange for equity stakes. The Trump administration is expanding its strategy of taking equity in companies receiving taxpayer funds, following a nearly 10% stake in Intel. The funding, potentially $10 million minimum per company, would support quantum computing, a critical next-gen

Campus autonomy was a major driver of the can-do America that Trump aims to revive.

Prince Harry, Meghan join open letter calling to ban the development of AI ‘superintelligence’ Also on the list are Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, conservative commentator Steve Bannon, former members of Congress, actors, professors, and many othe rs

Explore mysterious 9,000-year-old Stone Age megastructures found in the Arabian Desert.

America is facing a war on whimsy, and we are losing ground daily. A monster pervades this nation, stealing sleep from schoolkids, tearing down national treasures and locking us in our homes to toil behind computer screens: efficiency. We have marched to the anthem of productivity since the Industrial Revolution; we think of children working away with coal-slathered faces in factories and believe we have evolved as a society. But I posit that as soon as we pilfered the chisel

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

Enabled by congress and the courts, the president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms. Related

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

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Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

Huge demonstrations won’t translate into immediate political results, but there’s a reason the president is so bothered by them.

How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?

Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those farther to the right or left. This pattern may be the strongest one in electoral politics today, but it is one that many partisans try to obscure and many voters do not fully grasp.

DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.

Technology is coming for jobs. Here is why we need to plan, not panic. KEY POINTS Technology has always affected work but the next wave of technology may be different. Work fulfills not only essential physical needs for us but also psychological needs. Even if a work-free world offers physical abundance, we may still experience psychological poverty.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.