The founder of PayPal Peter Thiel has raised some eyebrows after giving a simple question about the future of humanity.

He says he’s launching a third party devoted to the cause of deficit reduction. Instead of the quadrennial dream of No Labels, in which high-minded donors put up the money for an imaginary white ...

After years of hesitancy and hand-wringing about A.I., schools are starting to experiment with chatbots — some with enhanced ...

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to ...

The New York Times critic and I are deep into a conversation about a long-simmering anxiety: that digital consumption is rapidly skewing toward increasingly video-centric platforms, potentially ...

But as much as AI’s potential can cause harm, blaming it alone misses the point and likely makes these problems worse. Humans ...

To highlight the law’s failure to address some of America’s most important problems, I want to imagine a different set of ...

To constructively reform an institution requires understanding its problems and challenges. To understand an institution’s ...

If you've been waiting for A.I. to launch us into a Jetsons-style utopia where Martian real estate is booming, Peter Thiel's here to lower your expectations — with his usual dry bite. Last week, The ...

The flooded area is in a part of Texas known as the Hill Country, where many people visit for the natural beauty. The region ...

That absolutism was tempered somewhat in Trump’s first term by the sensible cap on the state and local tax deduction. But the new legislation raises that cap and offers a larger tax break for heirs ...

Lamorna Ash’s “Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever” reports on the young faithful in Britain, while Ross Douthat’s “Believe” has ...