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The accountability gap big tech still won’t close
When Facebook announced in early 2020 that it would ban deepfakes, the headlines were largely positive.
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Analysis
Built to break: the truth behind EU-US data agreements
In January 2000, the European Union made a move that barely registered in the American press.
News
AI advancements transforming internet search experiences
You typed a question, received a list of options, and chose where to go.
Digital
The real accuracy of medical AI chatbots drops from 95% to 33% when patients talk like…
The chatbot told her she was likely experiencing a panic attack.
Politics
The firehose strategy: AI-era propaganda doesn’t aim to persuade — it aims to…
Sometime in late 2024, people started noticing that political memes on social media looked different.
Psychology
The loneliness that can come from having a large family that avoids real conversations
Large families generate a particular kind of acoustic camouflage.
Culture
The blockbuster that promises pain instead of triumph: how Dune Part Three breaks…
The most anticipated blockbuster of 2026 is a film about the psychological collapse of its own hero.
Politics
The quiet math of deportation: ICE data under Trump 2.0 tells a more complicated story
The gap between that number and the promise of "mass deportation" is not a failure of political will.
Psychology
Why some people become eerily calm in a crisis and then fall apart three weeks later…
The pattern is so common it barely registers as remarkable anymore.
News
South Africa told the truth about apartheid 30 years ago — then treated truth as a…
Forty years after the murder and thirty years after a commission promised the family truth and accountability, Lukhanyo was still searching for both.
Analysis
Democrats can’t decide whether to hand Trump warrantless surveillance powers —…
The core problem is not that Democrats disagree.
Culture
Why Billy Crystal is rebuilding his Palisades home on a Broadway stage, eight shows a…
Crystal lost his Palisades home in the devastating 2025 fires that tore through Los Angeles, destroying a place where he had lived for 46 years.
Politics
The people who never appear in the briefing slides: Cuba-Russia intelligence and its…
For longtime observers of U.S.-Cuba relations, the news landed like a cold echo from the Cold War era.
Politics
How U.S. sanctions on Venezuela crushed ordinary businesses while the regime adapted…
The U.S. financial system, and every bank that touched it, had been walled off.
Politics
Why MAGA’s most dangerous problem isn’t defection — it’s disengagement
The common belief about political coalitions is that they break apart slowly, eroded by decades of demographic change and generational drift.
Psychology
The strange relief of finally being disliked by someone you were exhausting yourself…
Last September, the VP reportedly expressed concerns about Nora's communication style to a mutual colleague.