6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (30+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action. Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (128+ words) His insistence during an overseas trip on championing democracy in foreign policy is now a relic. Secretary of State Colin Powell was having breakfast with Peru’s president in Lima’s historic center on September 11, 2001, when an aide passed him a note…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (107+ words) The Atlantic After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (661+ words) His paintings evoked an American innocence that didn’t exist—and that the nation couldn’t live up to. Early in Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive, which turns 25 this year, is a scene that doubles as one of Lynch’s many loving homages to…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (198+ words) His life as a writer and farmer was informed by a simple, clarifying idea: Forget tomorrow, and work toward what is good today. I knew this already, of course. Berry, who died on Monday at the age of 92, lived a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (155+ words) Even so, Anthropic has a habit of landing on ambiguity about the fallout of its technology. In its education report, for instance, Anthropic, the entity best equipped to observe whether students are... The term lends an air of scientific rigor…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (24+ words) The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (76+ words) The Atlantic A renewed threat underscores the museum complex’s isolation—and the limits of Trump’s pressure campaign. The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of Interior is channeling “you can’t…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (394+ words) The FBI made a highly irregular request to monitor one of Trump’s most visible critics. On August 8, former Representative Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, D.C. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (287+ words) Two Amish parents grieving the loss of their newborn child tell their story. When the Amish man emerged from his barn to greet me, he had no idea that his newborn son’s death had become national news. The man wore…...