Campaigns spend billions on ads that change outcomes by a few points, if at all. Here’s where the money goes—and how it drives our political parties.

Instead of offering empathy, look at what the right wing does when it seizes power.

Like a string of recent shows and films, Alfonso Cuarón’s new miniseries starring Cate Blanchett flips without warning.

But they’re still being very careful about how they do it.

Artificial intelligence won’t change votes, but it will distract from more important questions about the role of technology in American society.

This is no ordinary campaign, but it is exactly the campaign we needed at this extraordinary historic juncture.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

Sociologist Jessica Calarco interviewed ten families. She found women working overtime to hold society together.

Meat-eaters put themselves through an extraordinary array of mental contortions to defend their habit. Here's why it's so hard to put down the burger.

Driven by personal grievances and a misguided sense of their own exceptionalism, tech titans are swerving right and amplifying reactionary MAGA politics.

You’ve read about the scary horrors of a Trump second term. But a legal war of attrition that harasses MAGA’s enemies and transforms government info into propaganda could prove more insidious and harder to mobilize against.

Fortuna will favor the Harris-Walz ticket.

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

The Heritage Foundation blueprint has become absolute poison for Trump, who has been desperately trying to run away from it. Which is exactly why Democrats and liberal groups have to work to keep it alive through Election Day.

In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.

The Apple TV series, now in its fourth season, may be the best, least watched show on television.

As colleges and universities reopen, we should ask what the pro-Palestine protests achieved—and what’s in store for the fall.