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Michael Dell: Why I’m Giving $6 Billion to America’s Kids
I started my company with $1,000. I know what a financial foundation can mean.
Michael Dell
I Got Surgery to Restore My Hearing. I Regret It.
Speech-to-text and AI-assisted hearing aids are erasing the line between deaf and hearing.
Richard Vigilante
The Busboy and the Boss. Plus. . .
Meet America’s newest citizens. Why Kat Rosenfield is thankful for her husband. How a wellness start-up became a ‘sex cult.’ And more.
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Will AI Erotica Make Us Less Lonely, or More?
‘Our community is amazing,’ says the founder of Janitor AI, where 15 million users can build erotic fantasy worlds with AI companions.
Evan Gardner
Americans to Celebrate: The Prophet of the Atomic Age
John von Neumann, the Hungarian immigrant who invented game theory and shaped America’s nuclear strategy, also believed the technologies he developed…
Jordan Ellenberg
Kids Don’t Need Phones with Jonathan Haidt
The author of ‘The Anxious Generation’ and Bari Weiss sit down for a live conversation about technology, parenting, and how to take back childhood.
Bari Weiss
1HR 16M
Why Did Apple Remove China’s Gay Dating Apps?
Patrick McGee, author of ‘Apple in China,’ on how the company’s quiet removal of two major gay dating apps shows how deeply the company is entangled in…
River Page
The Scam Vigilantes
The government is failing to stop scams. So a handful of citizens have taken matters into their own hands.
Maya Sulkin
Inside Trump’s Crypto Cash Machine
His meme coin was the start of a crypto empire that has added billions to the president’s net worth—and left many suspicions.
Joe Nocera
America Needs to Make Its Own Chips. James Proud Says He Knows How.
A Silicon Valley start-up that was a closely kept secret until today claims it has found a way to make semiconductors faster and more cheaply in the…
Sean Fischer
Palmer Luckey and the Future of American Power
Bari Weiss and Palmer Luckey sit down for a sweeping conversation about his falling-out with Mark Zuckerberg, AI defense weapons, and why America lost…
Bari Weiss
1HR 27M
Letters to the Editor: The Right’s Reckoning
Readers discuss how the right should respond to its radicals, the secret to Mamdani’s success, the ethics of AI, and more.
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