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Lawmakers will have to figure out how to deliver on AI regulation without damaging the economy they’ve promised to protect.

Water, batteries, and go bags

Most of the top officials President Trump has pushed out have one thing in common.

There are some things in life, like writing an apology email for derailing both national security and one’s marriage, that nobody wants to do.

A Republican lawmaker is forcing a vote on impeaching the defense secretary based on these eight charges.

And he has, in turn, also corroded the soul of his party.

They’re preparing investigations on numerous fronts, but the president knows how to stonewall.

A new festival devoted to vertical-video series tries to make a case for the format.

How a Democratic Congress could stop the runaway federal agency

How the attention economy turned on Republicans

For Silicon Valley leaders, cozying up to the Trump administration has led to a series of spectacular failures.

Most of human history is waiting to be found. And it’s underwater.

Readers respond to our August 2026 cover story and more.

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Silicon Valley and Trump seem determined to protect the Nvidia-state at any cost.

America’s asylum system is broken.

The White House says Trump’s chief of staff is free to engage on AI and space matters after his wife ended several potential conflicts of interest.

What’s next for the war in Iran—and the secretary who’s the face of it?

The Dana White debacle is a first glimpse at a president whose power has been sapped.

Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, and others around the world are celebrating the five-day festival of Diwali. Observers offer prayers and use fireworks, lanterns, and colorful lights to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and…

The defense secretary wants military educators to pursue politics, not war.

Don’t tell them that it will be sent to a farm upstate. They know it can’t handle the terrain there.

Tens of thousands of voters in the state were shifted to “inactive” status.

In his new memoir, Emmanuel Carrère wonders if he can both oppose the war in Ukraine and love Russia.

Public-transit fashion is having a moment.