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As tech companies roll out self-driving cars in ever more locales, the federal agency deciding on the future of autonomous vehicles on the nation’s highways has a new top cop: a Silicon Valley attorney who...

Democrats are not just losing arguments; they are often losing the room. The problem runs deeper than messaging. It is a crisis of attention and, beneath that, a crisis of credibility. Voters may still tell...

At the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) annual board of governors meeting, the New York Times’ Tania Ganguli asked the NBA’s commissioner, Adam Silver, about the rising costs of fandom. To anyone who enjoys attending games,...

France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, hung on to power last Thursday after a no-confidence motion against his government failed by just eighteen votes. A majority of Parti Socialiste lawmakers, in theory in the opposition, withheld...

In April 1947, the architect Percival Goodman and his brother, the social critic Paul Goodman, published what would become a classic in urban planning: Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life. Exploring the form...

During the recent US government shutdown, President Donald Trump announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina. The arrangement appears to serve as a personal favor to Argentine president Javier Milei and may represent an effort...

Michael Roberts First, Donald Trump is a seriously dysfunctional individual whose self-aggrandizement, intense hubris, and lack of human empathy is obvious to all reasonable people. His public statements and his zigzags on policy (tariffs, international...

But an API can also be informal and improvisational. Hashtags are a kind of API: a developer who scrapes Twitter can use hashtags to figure out what each post is about. APIs can also be...

Rob Ashton When it comes to the candidates that I’m running against, we all have our lanes, and we’re all very good in those lanes. But for me, I’ve been a longshoreman for thirty years...

“God-sent madness is a finer thing than man-made sanity.” — Plato, Phaedrus With his unique blend of craft mastery and psychosis, David Lynch produced films that were both immediately unintelligible and compelling. It’s the sign...

In his firsthand account of the 1949 Peekskill Riot, the two-day frenzy of state-sanctioned mob violence against a left-wing music festival headlined by Paul Robeson, writer Howard Fast mostly describes his disbelief. He was invited...

In Capitalists Must Starve — a novel by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur — a labor activist climbs to the rooftop of a rubber factory in Pyongyang, Korea, using a makeshift rope...