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It’s easy to guess that AI made a video of singing cats or that an AI chatbot is talking us through a customer service problem.

John Semley on the history of undertakers, the corporatization of funeral parlors, and communal grieving

Panamint Capital broke ground on a $1.7 billion solar and storage project at the Calvert coal mine. The mine and an adjacent coal plant will stay online.

The incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell has AIPAC on his side, but the grassroots energy seems to be behind Cori Bush in the rematch for a House seat.

On the morning of Monday, July 20, as the monsoon session of India’s parliament opened, tens of thousands of protesters surged down the radial streets

Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.

By selling early access to his posts on Truth Social, Trump is selling the ability to move markets to anyone willing to pay the price.

The country’s next presidential election is more ominous in the glow of its latest environmental disaster.

Some 60,000 people from Morocco surged into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.

The corruption crisis may be the most important source of rot in the U. S. system.

The epic poem describes events around the sacking of Troy.

‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.

Space utopianism belongs to everyone, not billionaires.

Hidden behind two centuries of aggressive presidential corollaries is an enduring appeal to hemispheric solidarity.

An explosive novel probes the roots of homophobia in Senegal, where a chilling anti-LGBTQ+ law just passed.

Waiting for a disaster to save us.

I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was a European bootleg of Moving Out.

As Western aid retreats and Chinese investment shifts, the continent needs a model that is truly its own.

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

Washington is losing influence to Beijing in a strategic region.