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Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT. A lot has happened since. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT,... more

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This is a conversation about the relationship between Jewishness and the Jewish State. About believing some aspects of Israel have... more

A New York Times and Siena College poll released Nov. 5 showed Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five of... more

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The day before Hamas’s horrific attacks in Israel, the Arab Barometer, one of the leading polling operations in the Arab... more

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After factional infighting dominated the G.O.P.’s struggle to elect a House speaker, it feels weirdly quaint to revisit Mitt Romney’s... more

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The global decarbonization effort is colliding headfirst with the realities of great power politics. China currently controls more than 75... more

You can’t understand the modern Republican Party without understanding the complete collapse of trust in mainstream institutions that has taken... more

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Earlier this month, a news outlet called The Debrief published a story that included, to put it mildly, some explosive... more

A recent AP-NORC poll found that just a quarter of voters, including only around half of Democrats, want to see... more

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On Jan. 19, the United States officially hit its debt limit. In response, the Treasury Department began using accounting maneuvers... more

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In 1972, when Congress passed Title IX to tackle gender equity in education, men were 13 percentage points more likely... more

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Ezra is out sick, so today, we’re sharing one of our favorite conversations — with Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at... more

Ezra is out sick, so today, we're sharing an episode from the New York Times Opinion podcast, “First Person.” Each... more

There are few issues on which the dominant consensus in Washington has changed as rapidly in recent years as it... more

There are few stories that are more crucial to the world’s future than what’s happening in China. Take any of... more

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This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators... more

This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators... more

As 2022 comes to a close, we decided to invite listeners to send in questions for an ask-me-anything episode. And... more

It’s not an exaggeration to say that “clock time” runs our lives. From the moment our alarms go off in... more

“From the U.S. Federal Reserve’s initial misjudgment that inflation would be ‘transitory’ to the current consensus that a probable U.S.... more

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“One can usually pretend that there is a logic to the distribution of wealth — that behind a person’s prosperity... more