To better understand why the president is inexplicably going after Venezuela, one must study the behavior of small children.

OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate “innovation,” contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.

Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the rising cost of living. Now, bizarrely, President Trump is walking ...

To test out this idea, I asked an exceptionally creative person: the writer James Patterson, whom I recently interviewed for my weekly podcast. As prolific as he is popular, Patterson has, over the ...

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, ...

With a little knowledge and practice of some specific techniques, you can grow the amount of gratitude in your emotional repertoire and get a lot happier year-round. Gratitude is so effective that if ...

Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable. First published in The Atlantic on December 1, 2025.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

When I was about 10, he started taking the family to a Berkeley revival house that played the great movies of my parents’ youth. I loved those nights; even though many of the movies confused me, I ...

But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ...

Paris (dpa) - Nach Jahren an der Seite von Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron weiß seine Gattin Brigitte, dass jede ihrer ...

Tilo Hellenbock und Oliver Sailer von Galeria sprechen über die Lage im Einzelhandel und aktuelle Herausforderungen.