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How to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
Also: Rachel Syme on the return of Day-Glo. Source link
China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads
Earlier this year, a widely circulated 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise on a rooftop sparked outrage across…
Injustice Toward Barrett
A good justice on an outstanding Court should not be publicly abused. Source link
As Trump reports $2.2 billion in 2025 income, ethics experts raise alarms
Ethics experts sounded the alarm Wednesday after new financial disclosure reports revealed that President Trump’s income ballooned to $2.2…
Britain: Rearranging the Deck Chairs
The Week of June 21, 2026: Air conditioning, SpaceX, gas prices, and much more. Source link
Eight Great American Novels
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what…
Gas giants use AI to raise prices, lawsuit says, another algorithmic hit to the cost of living
A federal lawsuit alleging that gas companies in California are colluding to keep prices high through their use of AI-powered software…
After Amazon drops OpenAI movie 'Artificial,' film finds new home at Neon
A Hollywood portrayal of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman portrayed by actor Andrew Garfield will be released later this year, after…
Birthright Citizenship After Barbara
Congress is not powerless to stop the worst aspects of birthright citizenship. Source link
U.S. Power, Not International Law, Determines Whether the Strait of Hormuz Is Open
It has been historically open because the regime in Tehran understood that America would not tolerate Iranian restrictions. Source link
Anthropic partners with California to expand AI use by government workers
Anthropic teamed up with California to get more state workers to use its artificial intelligence assistant Claude as part of an effort to…
Ukraine Has Been Liberated (from Us)
Washington’s lack of interest has, paradoxically, helped Kyiv in some ways. Source link
At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their…
What Happened to Your Face?
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like…
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
One hardly needs a list of blue zones to think of commonsense ways to improve life span. We can invest in biomedical research and enact…
The Met’s “Costume Art” Makes a Case for Fashion
Some of the pairings can be quite on the nose. In the “Classical Body” section, a golden Issey Miyake breastplate and bodice, molded to…
Edward Steed’s “Down to Earth”
For the cover of the July 6 & 13, 2026, Body Issue, the cartoonist Edward Steed drew a foot, a body part that seldom gets our full…
Sublime Fury at the Ojai Festival
Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in…
The Fibre Fad Keeps On Moving
Britton became a zealot for fibre during the pandemic, not long after she’d decided to step away from the day-to-day operations of her…
Here come the New Jacobins
The commentary that followed sentencing for a violent Antifa attack is delusional. Source link
Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”
I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In…
Every Generation Gets the Fro-Yo It Deserves
You’ll do far better if you walk to Eighty-eighth and Madison and dip into the small, cool Madison Fare, a specialty-foods-and-candy…