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One strange feature of the last few years of AI discourse has been spiritual vocabulary creeping into the speech of secular leaders. CEOs, VCs, and researchers have become comfortable… More »

The Iran War has reached yet another confusing potential endgame, maybe, after the U.S. and Iran seemed to get close to an agreement of some kind over the weekend, at least accor… More »

The whereabouts of Representative Tom Kean, Jr. remain a mystery; the New Jersey Republican has remained absent from Capitol Hill for months as he deals with an undisclosed health is… More »

One of the more amusing videos to come out in the wake of the New York Knicks’ thrashing of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night, which completed a series sweep and booked New York a ticket to the NBA finals, featured a look at what Celebrity Row looked like the last time the Knicks m… More

Going into the midterms, the bipartisan backlash against AI gives Democrats a number of politically attractive options. They can try to tap into the growing opposition to data centers, particularly in states where the issue has become suddenly and massively divisive. They can talk about AI as a l… More »

“God blessed me in a lot of ways except for one,” Jon, a 30-year-old aspiring actor, tells me one night in April over dinner. “He made me big in a lot of ways, except for the one very important way.” More »

Iran, not Ukraine, is currently at the center of America’s volatile foreign policy. But while the U.S. has shifted its focus elsewhere, Ukraine has been more than holding its own… More »

In today’s GOP landscape, there are many variations on a uniform theme of ideological drift toward the far horizons of extremism. Your regular old conservatives and then people who are very conservative and some who are hard-core conservative. Since loyalty to More »

Most football offensive coordinators rise early on game day but not as early as Max Campbell, who is up hours before sunrise. That’s not because of nerves, adrenaline, or anything related to football’s grind-set mentality. It’s because Campbell’s games actually kick off at daybreak — at least whe… More »

If you want to know what has happened to Twitter, the app and the website, in the past few years, you can just open up X and see for yourself. Like everything else on the internet, it has become a bit more like TikTok, full of content recommendations and video. It has paid subscriptions now,