After pretending the attacks on Venezuela were about drugs, Trump confirms it's about the oil.

American families rely on immigrants to take care of their children (and build their houses and prepare their food).

Rising from the dust in Homer City will be a colossal artificial intelligence data center campus that will include seven 30-acre gas generating stations on-site, fueled by Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom.

This week, we bring you the second part of our 2023 conversation on the perils of too much pleasure. Psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains the neuroscience behind compulsive consumption.

We built genius machines, and gave them our blind spots.

Betting a breakthrough is imminent

Inflation has been top-of-mind for years. That could change.

Three religious leaders provide inspiration: Pope Leo XIV; Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde; and Pastor Jamal Bryant

The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.

Office workers are hanging on to their jobs for dear life

Innovation is like a garden — you need to create an environment where it can flourish.

The three reasons old people are happier that work for any age

Amid significant changes to how people work and live, the ability to persevere is critical.

Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. Thanks Kimberly!

Here are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.

“The whole of modernity,” Bauman wrote, “stands out from preceding epochs by its compulsive and obsessive modernizing—and modernizing means liquefaction, melting and smelting.” Relationships have become provisional. Anxieties are no longer concrete and local but diffuse and global. Products are designed for obsolescence. Even identity itself is consumable—you “try on” selves like clothes, discarding them when they no longer serve you. Gender is merely an expression, and love

The misguided temptation to exaggerate poverty

DM Good morning. What are the core reasons that humans across history, and still today, appear to possess, leverage, and perhaps enjoy such (overt!) bloodlust for solving personal and collective problems, such as conflict, aggression and greed (even as continuing enjoyment within our entertainment)? Good morning, Sciart. This is one of those questions that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of our evolved nature and our aspirations for ourselves. Let me walk through seve

It may have became the basis for most written languages, beginning 4,000 years ago in the Sinai desert.

For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Excerpt: "As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless. The humanities, which value rigorous inquiry for its own sake, will always be at odds with a world that thinks thi