In September, 2015, the hotelier Donald J. Trump tweeted that the first nuclear deal with Iran, which had been brokered jointly that summer by the world’s six major powers, “will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually…

Matters of adolescent identity and child welfare loom compellingly large in new festival-premièred films from Marine Atlan, Jordan Firstman, and Cristian Mungiu.

A race to decide which Republican, John Cornyn or Ken Paxton, will face off against the Democrat James Talarico, in November, and both parties are picking candidates for House elections.

Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” presents a remarkable case for placing moral concerns, and not profit, or competitive advantage, or efficiency, at the center of any discussion of artificial intelligence.

Everlane once embodied a hope that clothes could be mass-manufactured and high-quality. Now it’s owned by the fast-fashion giant Shein. Kyle Chayka writes about the millennial life-style brands that have sold out—and what it says about contemporary consumer…

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Last year’s Cannes Film Festival competition was the strongest in recent memory. I remember it, perhaps a touch rosily, as an almost ceaseless parade of triumphs: this was where we caught our first glimpse of “Sirāt,” “Sound of Falling,” “The Secret Agent…

Well, we’re embarrassed. On behalf of the entire search-and-rescue community—this one’s on us. It seems that we did find Amelia Earhart, roughly two weeks after her disappearance over the Pacific Ocean, in 1937, but we didn’t recognize her because she had…

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In the new Apple TV dramedy “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” a divorced mother in the midst of an increasingly ugly custody dispute is revealed to be the perfect customer for web-based sex work. In the course of a single session, the harried Paula (played by…

A class-action lawsuit is challenging the emergency-removal practices of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services.

What the “Anti-Weaponization” fund might mean for the President’s most ardent supporters—and why, for some, it might still fall short.

The unlikely bond between Jean Smart’s and Hannah Einbinder’s characters in “Hacks” led the show to a standing ovation of a final season.

The thud of Israeli air strikes shook Beirut’s military court as it worked through its docket one morning in early March. Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the…

“I, Joanna Stern, do solemnly swear to live with the machines for the next 365 days.” Thus begins the year-long experiment chronicled in Stern’s book, “I Am Not a Robot,” a romp through the landscape of applied artificial intelligence, published this month.…

One of my visits to the exhibition “Greater New York,” at MOMA PS1, just so happened to be on the day of the museum’s block party—a proper urban carnival. Initially, I lamented the noise and the sweat, but then I thought, Isn’t this the perfect occasion to…

If the contemporary media scene has proved anything of late, it is that a reliably supportive proprietor is as rare as a cool breeze in August. The political and financial costs of backing journalism that challenges the honesty or the competence of the powerful…

The myth of untapped genius runs rampant through mass culture, whether on talent-scouting shows like “American Idol” and “Shark Tank” or in the transformation of “real” people into celebrities on reality TV. Genius hiding in daily life is similarly at the…