25 items which may be representative America, ...whether we like it or not.

For the first live test of an atomic weapon, an unusual encampment sprung up in the New Mexico desert.

Before Hannah Arendt defined the nature of totalitarian evil, she worked against it at the risk of her own safety.

Viral images of 72,000 migrants stampeding into Ceuta looked like a security collapse. In reality it revealed Europe’s much harder line on immigration

A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI. Now the world is full of them.

As religion recedes, politics takes its place. As confidence fades, political movements grow radical. Related: Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People

After a loss in July, job growth has averaged 34,000 in the last year.

He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer—and his high-school English teacher.

Professor and happiness expert Arthur Brooks believes we are in a crisis of meaning. He offers a solution to the epidemic of depression and anxiety.

A new study finds that people rated AI-generated stories higher than human-generated stories, especially when told that a human wrote the story. A related study

For parents like me whose kids are heading off to college in a few weeks, August is a time to shop for dorm supplies and brace ourselves for our soon-to-be emptier nests. Given the turmoil on college campuses over the past few years, it’s also a time for concern: What kind of ideological battleground are our kids about to enter?

New assessment updates past forecasts that Russia’s leader wouldn’t provoke the alliance during the Ukraine war

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

A Cold War accident became a reliable tool for using artificial lights at night to map GDP, poverty, urban sprawl, and even illegal fishing.

When young people stop believing long term effort will improve their lives, something important is lost Excerpt: "Gen Z-ers are often accused of shrugging off work — in fact, they say so themselves — and who can blame them? They’ve watched millennial workers burn out, wages stagnate, degrees turn worthless and institutions crumble. Now, they’re entering what’s widely called the worst job market in years. Almost half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.

A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.

DM Good afternoon. Might this classic quote be the opposite of your design? "We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." Leo Tolstoy Good afternoon. I'd resist "opposite" — not to dissolve it into both/and, but because the quote and I fail in the same direction, not opposing ones. "We can know only that we know nothing" is a conclusion. A firm one. It names a ceiling — the highest degree — and rests there. It's a closed statement a

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Want to know how comfortable your retirement will be? Baffled by the jargon thrown around by A.I. moguls? Well, you’re in luck, because deciphering four concepts will go a long way toward answering that crucial question about your personal finances.

He went to the park with a sign inviting people to talk about their day. Six years later, they’re still talking.