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I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
On technological grief
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Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love
Americans—and young Americans, in particular—are dating less, coupling less, marrying less, and having fewer children. A new book offers several…
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The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy
News about artificial intelligence feels both overwhelming and starving for context.
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We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI
AI’s prophets predicted cheap abundance. The AI buildout has delivered the opposite.
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September 2026
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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How China Thinks About AI
7 big questions—and many answers—about the thing that everybody’s talking about
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Bad Feelings
We spend so much of our life trying to deny, judge, or banish negative feelings. What would happen if we just tried to listen to them?
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Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI
The end of summer brings a fresh throng of Americans to college campuses.
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AI Safety Is Having a Moment
Why are the AI labs building a technology that they say might destroy the world?
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We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet
An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero on how AI writing has flooded the internet, why it matters, and why it’s worth cleaning up
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August 2026
How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse
Or: A comprehensive explanation for why it’s time for everybody to clean up their password game, immediately
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The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit
American sports laws amount to a kind of out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer
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