Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at an event in Tokyo in June 2023. | Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images“Arms race” is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one. You’ve probably heard AI progress described as a classic “arms race.” The basic logic is that if you don’t race forward on making advanced AI, someone else will — probably someone more reckless and less safety-conscious. So, better that you should... Read more ›
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The FDA has granted full approval to lecanemab, also known as Leqembi, which promises to slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. | Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s a glimmer of hope for patients and families — if the US health system can handle it. A proven treatment to slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s — a devastating disease that robs individuals of their personality, autonomy, and ultimately life —... Read more ›
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A protester holds a sign outside the Miami federal courthouse where former President Donald Trump was arraigned later in the day on June 13, 2023. | Stephanie Keith/Getty ImagesSecurity footage, unwitting lawyers, and more details in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit reveal how prosecutors built their case against Trump. We now have more information about how prosecutors conducted their search for classified documents that former President Donald Trump kept after... Read more ›
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The Anopheles mosquito can infect a person with the malaria parasite. | Paul Starosta/Getty ImagesThe cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions. In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. In mid-June, they confirmed the second. On June 26, after an additional two cases were confirmed, Florida health officials issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory —... Read more ›
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People walk through the gate at the Harvard University campus on June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesLegacy admits, athletic recruits, and the children of donors, faculty members, and VIPs still have a leg up under the Supreme Court’s new ruling. The Supreme Court’s decision to effectively ban the consideration of race in college admissions reversed more than 40 years of precedent. It also left other kinds... Read more ›
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A child runs through a fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania to cool off on June 21, 2023 amid a heat wave that brought temperatures nearing 90 degrees Fahrenheit. | Mindaugas Kulbis/APHeat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better. Surprise! This summer is extremely hot. How hot? July 4 was the hottest day on Earth since record-keeping began more than 40 years... Read more ›
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Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty ImagesMalaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough. In 2000, nearly 900,000 people died of malaria, the vast majority of whom lived in poorer regions of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa. It’s one of the biggest public health problems in the world, threatening nearly half the world’s population. Over the last 20 years,... Read more ›
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers before the start of a meeting between President Joe Biden and governors visiting from states around the country in the East Room of the White House on February 10, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesGov. Tony Evers flexed on Republicans with a creative gubernatorial veto. This week, Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made key changes to the... Read more ›
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Shade at bus stops can be a rare occurrence, even in the hottest climates. Shade, like the tree a woman in Chicago sought out in a heat wave while waiting for a bus, can lower the temperature by 30 or 40 degrees. But shade is typically less common in communities that faced historical redlining. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via Getty ImagesHow city design falls short to address the human... Read more ›
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Children look on as they sit along a staircase by the rubble and broken furniture of a destroyed flat in a building in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army declared the end of a two-day military operation in the area. | Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Israeli raid on Jenin appears over. But the next one could come at any time.... Read more ›
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Cristian Lazzari/Getty ImagesHow many fatalities will it take to get officials to take the problem seriously? How many deaths does it take to get the government to take a crisis seriously? That’s the question raised by the Governors Highway Safety Association’s latest preliminary report on pedestrian deaths in 2022. The annual overview of state data on pedestrian fatalities helps the public and policymakers get a better understanding of the overall... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg watching a UFC Fight Night event in October 2022. | Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLCMark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative is going live. Instagram’s much-hyped new Twitter-killer app, Threads, is here. And it looks a lot like Twitter. Which is exactly the point. Many social media users are ready — desperate even — for a solid Twitter replacement, as the app has been going through a particularly rough phase in... Read more ›
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A child runs through a fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania to cool off on June 21, 2023 amid a heat wave that brought temperatures nearing 90 degrees Fahrenheit. | Mindaugas Kulbis/APHeat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better. Surprise! This summer is extremely hot. How hot? July 4 was the hottest day on Earth since record-keeping began more than 40 years... Read more ›
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry testifies in a House hearing in March 2023. Landry is suing the Biden administration over alleged censorship on social media platforms. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesA Trump-appointed judge just blocked the White House from fighting misinformation, citing free speech concerns. Conservatives have complained for years that they’ve been unfairly banned from social media platforms. Now a federal judge is banning parts of... Read more ›
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Electoral authorities review electoral records projected on a screen at the Electoral Process Operations Center in Guatemala City on July 4, 2023. | Orlando Estrada/AFP/Getty Images“[This] is a major, major threat to the country’s democracy.” This past weekend, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court paused the certification of its recent election results after 10 political parties disputed the outcome and called for a review of the returns. It’s an unprecedented move that could... Read more ›
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Traffic in the Midtown neighborhood of New York, on June 17, 2023. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA plan starting in the spring will toll cars driving downtown. It’s a great idea — so why did it take so long? What if I told you there was a fairly simple policy initiative that would reduce auto traffic by 15 to 20 percent in the heart of America’s most congested city,... Read more ›
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Flowers for the slain 17-year-old teenage boy Nahel M. are seen at his grave in Mont-Valerien, near the Paris suburb of Nanterre where he was shot and killed by police, on July 5, 2023. | ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AFP via Getty ImagesFrance finds itself at the center of the global reckoning over police violence. Widespread protests appeared to ease Wednesday morning in France after police killed a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb... Read more ›
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Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Philadelphia shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. A shooter randomly fired at passersby in Philadelphia Monday night, killing five people, including a 15-year-old boy, and injuring two more. The shooter was wearing a bulletproof vest and was armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun. It’s not clear what their motive was, given that... Read more ›
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Aleksei Morozov/Getty ImagesTikTok isn’t the way I want the internet to work, but it’s where the internet is going. I was trying to find a TikTok video to show my mom when the realization hit me: I am becoming her. That is to say, I’ve aged out of the intended and desired audience for popular new apps. They’re no longer made with me in mind, and there’s a steeper learning... Read more ›
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About 30 percent of the US’s homeless population lives in California. A recent large study describes their lives. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesHow homeless people in California lost their homes, and how they cope. While unsheltered homelessness in the US has grown conspicuously worse over the last decade, understanding the experiences of those living without housing remains logistically difficult. So much of what researchers know about the... Read more ›
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