CULTURE
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“The Social Reckoning” Leaves Out the Human Element
Jeff, for his part, is a smooth professional handler, providing Frances with a burner phone preloaded with his number. When…
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Ernie Bushmiller’s Sunday Morning, Live
Usually, an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is a validation of cultural relevance, even coolness. Less so if your name…
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Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?
“If every team can generate better AI-based analysis to support their arguments, then the demand for conflict resolution and authority-based…
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When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime
Gayle recalls this moment differently. She says, for example, that the girl was not blindfolded. She says that Kye—an online…
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Taryn Simon’s Father Figures | The New Yorker
Although it’s interesting to learn about the federal government’s photographic strategies (the T.W.A. fuselage, for example, was scanned before being…
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Kate Atkinson’s Obsession with History
“The book is a repository for the past,” Kate Atkinson once remarked about her début work. “The book is, in…
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Our A.I. Problem | The New Yorker
Although the data-center backlash may reflect a specific attempt to defy A.I.’s encroachment, the wellspring of “A.I. populism”—an umbrella term…
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The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
Valeria Luiselli, “Beginning Middle End”Knopf / Penguin Random House Alexander Maksik, “Passengers”Europa Editions Kenan Orhan, “The Renovation”Farrar, Straus and Giroux…
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The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird
Birds are in trouble. Migratory shorebirds are in especially bad trouble. And long-distance migratory shorebirds, like the Hudsonian godwit, may…
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Anthropic and Donald Trump’s Dangerous Alignment Problem
In the new year, Musk welcomed Hegseth to a meeting at SpaceX headquarters, where Hegseth unveiled a new partnership with…
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