Folk Culture

For years now, generative AI has been used to conjure all sorts of realities—dazzling paintings and startling animations of worlds...

There’s a story about Sam Altman that has been repeated often enough to become Silicon Valley lore. In 2012, Paul...

When the U.S. fertility rate began falling, toward the end of the 2000s, it at first seemed a predictable response...

For nearly five decades, Richard Dawkins has enjoyed a global fame rarely achieved by scientists. He has adapted his swaggering...

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In the days after former President Donald Trump declared that he’d make in vitro fertilization more accessible for Americans, the...

For the great majority of Americans who have firmly settled on Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the idea that anyone...

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Something weird is happening on my Instagram feed. Between posts of celebrities with perfect skin are pictures of regular people—my...

Donald Trump’s former longtime adviser Michael Cohen has said of the ex-president, whom he has likened to a Mob boss:...