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Israel’s unlikely savior is a Sephardic career soldier whose family paid the ultimate price in its recent wars. But can he coalesce enough disparate factions to finally end Netanyahu’s poisonous reign?
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The comedian Lenny Bruce, who died 60 years ago this month, was a fearless champion of free speech. Today, he would have less to fear from the police—and more from the audience
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Why are A.I. agents suddenly going rogue? The computer scientist who wrote the textbook on the subject has the answer—and the solution
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Six decades on, the most shocking thing about the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas is how routine such gruesome events would become
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A specter is haunting the Democratic Party—the specter of Hasan Piker
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the murderous supercomputer HAL ends up deactivated. What would ChatGPT have done differently? Ah, what a great question!
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Despite being forced to wear an ankle monitor following a conviction for robbing taxpayers of millions of dollars, France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen is entering the election fray
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Why our nation’s 250th has us thinking twice about the American Revolution
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The East Room of the White House was once the country’s most exclusive music venue, hosting everyone from Duke Ellington to Johnny Cash to Prince. Under Trump, it has fallen silent
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As the Russia-Ukraine war drags into its fifth year, it’s clear that traditional diplomacy has failed. But an unlikely go-between has stepped into the breach: high-living oligarch Roman Abramovich
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Which World Cup team are you? A guide for the FIFA arriviste
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Trump has pardoned thousands of people in return for barely disguised bribes. But in Jho Low, the flamboyant fugitive behind the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud, he may have hooked his biggest fish yet
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The proliferation of A.I. fembots is only the latest iteration in a centuries-old quest to create the “perfect” woman
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It’s Trump’s F.C.C., not Stephen Colbert, that represents a threat to public decency
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Whether it’s a proposed 250-foot arch, a billion-dollar ballroom, or a planned “Garden of Heroes,” everything Trump builds is a monument to himself
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Elon Musk says OpenAI abandoned its mission to protect humanity. But is his own A.I. crusade against the “woke mind virus” any better?
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America, you may have heard, is turning 250 this year. But the planned festivities are more late Roman Empire than youngish republic
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Beloved by young American Catholics, Pope Leo offers something that Trump never will—peace of mind
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As a tentative ceasefire holds, the missile threat Trump invoked to attack Iran comes with an awkward historical footnote—Israel could have helped to build it
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Prediction markets are courting controversy—and allegations of insider trading—by taking bets on the Iran war. Gambling on human life may be venal, but it isn’t new
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A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)
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It’s tempting to think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was fated to disgrace the royal family. But what if there were a what-if?
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The screenwriter of the Academy Award–winning film Argo, which dramatized the daring exfiltration of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the 1979–81 hostage crisis, on what’s at stake in Iran today
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In 1982, the first American journalist admitted to Iran after the hostage crisis interviewed a prickly Ali Khamenei—before he became an ayatollah. His death in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike brought the encounter rushing back
