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AI boom catapults San Francisco median home price above $2 million
The artificial intelligence boom has driven up San Francisco’s median home sales price to a record $2.15 million. Real estate brokerage…
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Culture
The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology
Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and…
Culture
“The Drama” Is One Long Troll
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems…
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Iran attempting cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure, officials say
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are “urgently warning” private-sector companies nationwide that Iranian actors are conducting…
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Trump’s Iran Rhetoric Is Not a War Crime
His threats are overheated and politically unhelpful, but his domestic opponents are skewing the facts in response. Source link
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A First Step Toward Shrinking Government
Following the Trump administration’s cuts, the federal government employs the lowest percentage of U.S. workers since World War II. Source…
Business
The Paradoxes—and Problems—of the Family-Vlogging Industry
“Like, Follow, Subscribe” is decently reported, if clunkily written; it lacks the legal and philosophical acumen of Leah A. Plunkett’s…
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The Iranian Sharia-Supremacist Regime and ‘Civilian’ Infrastructure
There are no ‘civilians,’ in the Western sense, in Iran, and the IRGC uses the infrastructure for its war aims. Source link
Culture
In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread…
Culture
Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free?
Twenty years ago, Hatmaker was much like Waters: a young pastor’s wife raising three little kids while writing her first books on Biblical…
Culture
We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing
Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. Source link
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In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen
Directing movies is also a matter of production—of the interpersonal, the administrative, and the technical practicalities that go into…
Business
Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons”
For the cover of the April 13, 2026, Future Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted an army of machines filling the horizon, one of…
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Thirty Years After Welfare Reform, It’s Time for the Next Generation of State-Led Solutions
The problem with today’s safety net isn’t intent; it’s design. State leadership would help fix it. Source link
Culture
A Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn
The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy paratha on a bed of spiced…
Culture
He Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here’s His Interview.
I want to be able to speak freely, and I want you to be able to speak freely, and in order to do that I think you should have more freedom…
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The Fog of War Against Iran
When America loses a war, it is generally because of political reaction at home, notwithstanding smashing success on the battlefield.…
Culture
How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer
Rauschenberg returned to Black Mountain for the summer of 1951. By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching…
Culture
My Brief Time in John F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Orbit
His curiosity extended to the universe. One night, at a house party, John and I ended up in the back yard, drinking beer. Suddenly he…
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Yes, Boldly Go
Getting back to the moon is nice, but it is a manned mission to Mars that should be our ultimate objective. Source link
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Europe’s Right-Wing Parties Can’t Afford to Neglect Young People
Building coalitions around older voters shows a lack of understanding of growing generational tensions in politics. Source link
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New Directors, New Films
Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and…