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An important thing to realize about the grandest conversations surrounding AI is that, most of the time, everyone is making...

Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to have one goal at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, yesterday: Prove she’s...

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After my divorce was finalized, I quit my job. I quit my book club. My monthly poker game. I canceled...

In 2016, Donald Trump liked to talk tough about corporate America. On the campaign trail, he said that Amazon was...

You may not have thought it possible for the GOP to swaddle itself tighter in the trappings of Donald Trump—for...

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Did you hear how Donald Trump didn’t know about the most important U.S. defense alliance before he became president? Don’t...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful...