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What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI

Here is a selective list of the dozens of images the president has recently disseminated on Truth Social: Donald Trump on a horse next to George Washington on a horse, in the body of Hulk Hogan, beating Hogan in arm wrestling, standing between General George Patton and General Douglas MacArthur in a World War II uniform, hovering menacingly with a hockey stick over the Canadian prime minister, commanding the deck of an aircraft carrier, nuking parts of Earth from space, gleefully dancing to “YMC

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A Diagnosis for Social Conflict That Gets Lost Along the Way

Weddings, famously, create conflict. Before I got married, my parents and I fought over the guest list. A friend of mine struggled with adding some of her husband’s Protestant traditions to their otherwise Jewish ceremony. Another friend had to decode, and then manage, complicated tensions among her future aunts- and uncles-in-law. All of these issues got resolved, and according to the conflict-resolution facilitator Priya Parker, the process of figuring them out made our weddings more successfu

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‘Feminism Is the Consequence of the “Man Problem,” Not Its Cause’

The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right, Helen Lewis argued in the June issue. Helen Lewis’s “The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote” is the most important thing I have read this year. My husband has said that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election because of the misogyny that exists in America; Lewis’s article proved him correct, with just a teaspoon of humor mixed into an otherwise very frighte

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Sons and Mothers

Photographs by Amy Elkins 1. When I was 13, not long after my father had committed suicide, I asked my mother, “What’s the Oedipus complex?” “Why?” she replied at once. “Are you afraid you’ve got it?” Maybe. I wasn’t aware of wanting to murder my father, but in the four years after he suffered a massive stroke at 43, he’d been a volatile presence in our house, given to bursts of rage and tears, or rendered ominously mute by his paralysis. When he disappeared on December 6, 1972, leaving my moth

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What Comes After America

Emily St. John Mandel writes science fiction, with the accent firmly on fiction. Imagination, not technical verisimilitude, is her strength; she wisely disregards the scientific in favor of the human. Her indifference to plausibility is a measure of her confidence as a storyteller, and helps snare readers like me, who have a mild allergic reaction to postapocalyptic settings and outer-space odysseys. Her previous novel featured time travel, interplanetary travel, and a cosmic glitch; now, in her

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A Night for Actor’s Actors, Not Movie Stars

When the Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold accepted her Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series last night, she joked that she was so proud of her win, she intended to display her trophy as prominently as possible in her home. The award would be mounted on a rotating turntable, she explained; mirrors would be set up around the space so that visitors could always see it, wherever they were. “This is going to become my entire personality now,” she warned. This year’s Emmys essentially tur

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Jean Smart’s Reminder to the Women in the Room

The actor Jean Smart began her acceptance speech at the Emmys tonight with a request: “Just the men stay standing,” she said to the applauding crowd before her. “The girls get to sit down.” She had just won her fifth-straight award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on HBO Max’s Hacks, about the tender and testy friendship between an unfiltered comedy legend (played by Smart) and an apprehensive Gen Z comedy writer (Hannah Einbinder). As she clutched her statuette, Smar

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The Supreme Court Recognizes the Danger of Trump’s Election Plan

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor Donald Trump will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots in the coming midterm elections. Tonight, the Supreme Court handed down an emergency ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that would have made mail-in voting so onerous as to be effectively impossible for election officials to administer. The Court’s decision spares those officials from pointless chaos—and voters from

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‘The Flood is the Point’

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Donald Trump loves a deal, even if, at times, it’s just the idea of a deal. The president’s trade dispute with Canada continues to drive one of America’s closest allies into a closer relationship with its chief competition. Although Trump is insisting that “Canada wants to make a deal very badly,” there is very little evidence that’s true, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney—enjoying broad national approval for his c

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Trump’s See-No-Evil AI Policy

Not long ago, most of Washington was scrambling to be as friendly as possible to the rise of artificial intelligence. Lawmakers from both parties saw a chance to bolster the nation’s economy—and their campaign coffers. But rarely has public opinion flipped so quickly and so thoroughly as it has on AI in recent months. While AI was making some tech leaders unfathomably rich, many Americans in states both red and blue grew alarmed by the proliferation of loud, electricity-guzzling data centers, co

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How Long Can the U.S. Escape an Atlantic Hurricane?

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Every president likes to take credit for good news on their watch, but most of them have at least a little shame about it. Not Donald Trump. September 10 is typically the peak of Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expected a relatively restrained year,

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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown

The saga of Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to slap his name onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will not go away. In May, Trump lost in court and was ordered to remove his name from the building. But now—according to a 57-page presentation by Trump’s hand-picked executive board obtained by The Washington Post—the Kennedy Center is warning that it will likely go bankrupt. Unless, that is, Trump gets to put his name back on the wall next to that of his slain predecessor. The

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A Bigoted Outburst Against Texas Sports Fans

On Saturday night, college-football fans in Texas were blessed with a moment of collective ecstasy. Their Longhorns were playing Ohio State, the nation’s No. 1 team, and trailed by 20 points. Then they improbably scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. A frenzy shook the stadium as more than 100,000 people, most in team colors, celebrated the stunning comeback. But Bo French, the Republican nominee for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, was upset by what he saw in the crowd. “I hear

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Gas Prices Could Cost Republicans the Midterms

One might expect Donald Trump to be concerned about gas prices. Less than two months out from the midterms, gas costs 37 percent more than it did a year ago. Home-heating oil was up 52 percent as of August, and diesel is up a staggering 69 percent. None of those numbers is likely to go down significantly as long as the Iran war drags on. Meanwhile, just last week, a Saudi oil pipeline that carries about 4 percent of the global oil supply shut down after being bombed. (No one has claimed credit f

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Who Needs Regulation When Trump Is President?

One consistent complaint against the Trump administration is that it is imposing personalist rule, in which the whims of the leader override the law. Now Donald Trump has come out forcefully against regulating artificial intelligence—and his argument is based almost explicitly on the superiority of his omniscience over any formal legal process. He is not so much refuting the charge of personalism as turning it into a promise. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART