The 2024 United States presidential election was framed as a crucial test for the nation’s political system. It brought ongoing concerns over oligarchy, mob rule, a breakdown of equal protection under ...

On August 15, 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” He spoke famously of the nation ...

Socrates famously disturbed the Athenian order by engaging in an open, exploratory dialogue with fellow Athenians interested in serious issues concerning society, virtue and what he called the “good ...

In April 1949, as Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union intensified, 12 nations came together to sign the North Atlantic Treaty, giving birth to NATO. The alliance was formed ...

The New York Times has no special reason for appreciating the professional choices of its former collaborator, Bari Weiss. When Ms. Weiss resigned from her otherwise enviable job as opinion editor and ...

Imagine standing amidst the bustling energy of the National Children’s Literature Festival clutching a prize for a short story titled “Healing of Wounds.” The pride and excitement of that defining ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. This ...

This led me to offer a new prompt. ChatGPT’s response is well worth examining in detail. “Could we imagine an AI agent that has integrated all these skills of recognizing and weighing the importance ...

When Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, the media filled with breathless headlines about the collapse of democracy. Trump’s victory was certainly the collapse of something, but ...

Of all of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC. He is the ...

[You can read “If She Loses, Part 1: Kamala Wrong on the Issues” here.] Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has never won a single primary vote in the 2020 or 2024 elections, so at ...