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America’s longest-running paternity dispute has seemingly come to an end: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, his enslaved chambermaid, and the Smithsonian has the DNA to prove it. Richard Kurin, a fifty-year veteran of the institution…

A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within the next decade. —BBC. A.I. deletes the recipe for Hidden Valley ranch and no one wants to live in…

Earlier this year, I wrote a series of columns about how the decline of the Church in America had eroded the social infrastructure that once supported sustained political protest in this country—leaving us, today, with millions of social-media posts and a…

One of Ed Sheeran’s enduring contributions to the texture of twenty-first-century music—let’s say you are looking for one—will probably be the repopularization of the loop pedal. This is a technology, which Sheeran mastered in his early years as a busker…

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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 this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction.

Liangzhu, a small town near the tech hub Hangzhou, has become a haven for tech workers burnt out by the grind of China’s booming tech industry.

As measles cases reach a thirty-five-year high, disagreements over vaccines are putting new strains on families—and bringing the politics of MAHA into the home.

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In 1884, Charles Parsons invented a machine that revolutionized the mass production of electricity. His steam turbine could generate power far more cheaply, and on a vastly greater scale, than traditional piston engines. Parsons belonged to a long line of…

Tales of human resilience in nature bring the thrill of the wild to the comfort of the couch. In our hyper-developed day and age, why do we return to stripped-down tales of survival?

In “Delirium” and “The Cherry Orchard,” experimental directors smash up and rebuild classic plays.