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China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
Patrick McGee
The Conventional Wisdom Is That China Is Beating Us. Nonsense.
One of the biggest soft power victories in all of world history occurred over the last few years. Hardly anyone has noticed.
Tyler Cowen
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the woolly mammoth is next.
Johanna Berkman
Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence? Our Next Live Debate!
Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Fei-Fei Li face off against Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr on May 15 in San Francisco.
Isaac Grafstein
Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch
Inside the Erectile Dysfunction–Industrial Complex
Are men struggling with ED at high enough rates to justify the number of products they’re advertised for it?
Katherine Dee
Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds
To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.
Cliff Asness
A Modest Proposal: Compulsory Vasectomies
Why slow down the biological clock for women when we could speed it up for men?
Amelia Miller
The Online Right Is Building a Monster
Their increasingly extreme rhetoric is eventually going to freak the hell out of ordinary people.
River Page
The Plays About the End of the World
AI theater isn’t here quite yet. But theater about AI is everywhere.
Suzy Weiss
BREAKING: Politician Gives Good Speech
'We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias,' Vice President J.D. Vance said.
Oliver Wiseman
WATCH: Can America Win the AI War with China?
Tyler Cowen and Geoffrey Cain talk DeepSeek, OpenAI and Cold War II.
Bari Weiss
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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz
“Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said partner David Ulevitch in a statement explaining the hire.
Olivia Reingold
This Is What Fairer Trade with China Looks Like
Why should Gap and H&M pay higher tariffs than Temu and Shein?
Melissa Chen
Some Say AI Is the Greatest Invention of All Time. I Don’t Get It.
People want artificial intelligence to save them from the grinding indignities of life. Spoiler alert: It won’t.
Freddie deBoer
Why DeepSeek Is a Gift to the American People
China’s AI breakthrough has exposed our policy failures. And not a day too soon.
Alex Rampell
DeepSeek Is a Wake-Up Call. Is America Listening?
The Chinese start-up has blown up our assumptions about American tech supremacy—and made the AI race very real.
Geoffrey Cain
The Folly of Freeing Ross Ulbricht
Trump’s pardon of the drug kingpin repudiates everything he ran on.
Charles Fain Lehman
Mr. President, Don’t Abandon the Rule of Law to Save TikTok
Joe Lonsdale, a prominent Silicon Valley supporter of Donald Trump’s, writes that the new president can’t wish away a ban on the popular Chinese app.
Joe Lonsdale
Inside Biden’s Billion-Dollar Broadband Boondoggle
The president promised to connect rural Americans to the internet. But ‘woke leftist policies’ have helped prevent the $42 billion scheme from servicing…
Madeleine Rowley
I Joined TikTok Refugees on RedNote. Here’s What It’s Like.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.
River Page
Could Trump Buy TikTok?
TikTok seems doomed—unless an unlikely savior rides to the rescue, Joe Nocera reports.
Joe Nocera
Emperor Elon
The sun never sets on the land where Musk commands attention and allegiance. How should we feel about being his subjects?
Nellie Bowles
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