Overlords at the Easel
Artificial intelligence was built on work stolen from artists. It’ll now create work to replace them.
1677 results found for "only receipts found in Tamerlan’s pockets were receipts for his self-incriminating bomb-making materials"
A Plea to Fox Viewers: Read More, Watch Less
And read this especially!
You Missed It! How Trump’s Email Strategy Keeps the Base Loyal
And out-raises Biden.
When an Angry Bum Spit at Me on Eldridge Street
It reminded me that we need a revolution.
Why Nearly All of America’s 400 Million Guns Have Got To Go
If others won’t say it, I will: We do not need all these guns in our society — and there are very strong reasons to get rid of almost all of them.
CrowdStrike Accused of Defrauding Investors in Class Action Lawsuit
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McCarthy to Cohn to Trump
Joe McCarthy may have been America’s most vicious demagogue. But he passed all his “skills” onto Donald Trump. To understand McCarthy is to understand what we are living through.
Just Trust, Don’t Verify: A Recipe for Electoral Disaster
Election officials must not only identify the rightful winners but also provide the public convincing evidence that they did so.
The New Color Purple
As tech companies move from blue states to blue cities inside red states, what are the long-term political consequences?
The Real Reason We Can’t Contain Gun Culture
A dark look at the unsettling connection between the Second Amendment, America’s gun culture, race, slavery, and the fear of Black retribution.
The Second American Revolution — Will It Ever Be Won?
A deep look at why cultural and political battles of the 1960s are far from over, and how the leaders gave us the world we live in today.
George Packer Explains It All
The real story of the divisions of 2020 and whether we can ever be made whole again.