The People Building AI Are Warning Us. Will We Listen? The companies racing toward recursive self-improvement admit they don't fully understand the systems they already have. Most people experience artificial intelligence as a helpful assistant. They use it to draft emails, answer questions, summarize meetings, or generate
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are suing after Trump banned them from the White House. He called it "the ban on the free press" himself, on camera.
The Kennedy Center is threatening to close entirely — to file for bankruptcy, to go bye-bye, gone — unless Donald J. Trump can put his name back on the building. That sentence needs an immediate clarification, because it hides the actual story. When we say "the Kennedy Center" in
Trump's ballroom obsession goes back further than most people realize — to 2010, when Mika Brzezinski connected him with David Axelrod, then a senior adviser in the Obama White House. The first call had nothing to do with ballrooms; Trump wanted in on fixing the Gulf oil spill. Axelrod
Attacks on the Press and Free Speech The war on the free press continues. This week brought four new fronts — each one, on its own, would have been a scandal in any previous administration. Because the Overton window has shifted so far, they now arrive almost as background noise. But
For a while now I’ve been saying that if the Natalie Harp controversy produced an impromptu Melania Trump press conference, the entire episode would be worth it. Then Melania made her first public appearance in more than a month. The trigger: Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, in a rally
There is a particular kind of letter that only gets written inside a court, and Natalie Harp wrote two of them. “Dear Mr. President,” each begins, the way you might address a stranger — except what follows reads less like correspondence between a boss and a special assistant, and more like
The Speech Jon Ossoff And there's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war. Treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns. Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, they've now been at sea for more than 240 days without a port call. It'
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We all pay into the same government. This administration has decided only their voters get anything back.
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How a White House transparency dump meant to discredit American elections ended up confirming the Russian influence operation Trump has denied since 2016.
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The administration is calling this a national-security leak investigation. Strip away the label and what's left is a president using the Justice Department to punish reporting that made him look bad.
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Trump's defenders once treated every Biden misstep as evidence of decline. Ankara tested whether that standard applies both ways.