Is an A.I. kill switch possible?

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Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

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A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.

After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said he was sorry, and then apologized for apologizing.

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“It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81.

After Donald Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MSNOW from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President.

As President Trump stages a reception for Xi Jinping, in Washington, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other, Ishaan Tharoor writes.

“Our Noble Selves,” the author’s latest novel, is an object-laden murder mystery, of a sort.

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In Brent Katz’s short documentary “Josh’s Wedding,” a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building.

In November, 2023, and April, 2024, the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham wrote a pair of articles about the high number of civilian casualties in the attacks that Israel launched in Gaza in response to Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023. In these…

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