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The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem

Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and...

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America is richer than ever. Why is it so unhappy?

Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history.  We live in homes conditioned to our...

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Everything is a mockumentary now, thanks to Rob Reiner

Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap would influence comedy for years to come. | Alberto E. Rodriguez/FilmMagic Between the emerg...

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Is ISIS back?

Floral tributes and candles are placed at at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. | Audrey Richardson/Getty...

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Republican women in Congress are tired of Mike Johnson

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) takes a question from a reporter at the US Capitol Building on December 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Andrew H...

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Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doing pull-ups at DCA airport is not exactly the kind of air travel improvement travelers want this holiday season. | Heat...

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How AI could create “a world without work”

When it comes to artificial intelligence, few fears loom larger than the idea of robots coming to take our jobs. But if you talk to the AI ev...

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The 10 best books of 2025

It’s been a good year for books. I’ve been glutting myself on them for months: reissued forgotten classics with sentences so crisp you can he...

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Trump’s war on democracy is failing

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on December 13, 2025, in Washington,...

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Climate change is rewriting polar bear DNA

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear...

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The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem.

In a children's ward for dengue in Bangladesh's capital, patients are squeezed two to a bed as cases rise well after the usual season for the po...

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Is an Oscars frontrunner great art or grief porn?

Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. | Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features Chloé...