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To the right are politicians who have spent years denouncing elite universities for being full of snowflakes who cannot bear exposure to different opinions, and are now trying to stretch the ...

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More than 1,670, the number of official state symbols. Pending a vote by state legislators today, the shaka—the “hang loose” ...

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THE FEDERAL RESERVE, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England have all engaged in some form of quantitative ...

FOR BOOKISH students in the 1990s, it seemed no bedside table was without a dog-eared novel by Paul Auster. His books, including the popular “The New York Trilogy” (1987) and “The Music of Chance” ...

When it comes to disinformation, “social media took the cost of distribution to zero, and generative AI takes the cost of generation to zero,” says Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory.

But research on disinformation is limited in several key respects—studies tend to look only at campaigns in a single language, or on a single subject, for instance. And most glaringly of all, there is ...

Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it ...

On the opening day, navigating the human traffic eager to glimpse the mechanical marvels on display required the same tenacity as negotiating the Chinese capital’s gridlocked roads. Helpfully, the ...

DONALD TRUMP likes a reason to boast. He recently mused about getting senior Republican lawmakers to officially support his third presidential campaign in the party’s primary elections. “[Such] a lot ...