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Breaking History: The Invention That Changed Everything
How air-conditioning became one of the most powerful invisible forces shaping modern life.
Bari Weiss
30M
The Doctors Trying to Redefine Death
An expanded definition of death for the sake of procuring more organs means killing life to save life.
L.S. Dugdale
The Invention That Changed Everything
How did air-conditioning become one of the most powerful invisible forces shaping modern life?
Eli Lake
27M
America’s Nuclear Industry Is So Back
The U.S. nuclear industry died because our government didn’t innovate fast enough. This start-up wants to fix that.
Sean Fischer
The Weedkiller Tearing Apart Trump’s Coalition
It’s a common belief in MAHA circles that glyphosate causes cancer. But the herbicide is essential for farmers—who, this time, have won.
River Page
China Is Overtaking America. In an Electric Car.
Chinese electric vehicles don’t just pose a market threat to Tesla. They could also be a weapon of war.
Ethan Dodd
Test Drive: Is BYD as Good as Tesla?
The China automaker is making big gains in the EV market, but Tesla still has the edge. For now.
Michael Dunne
Social Media Shortens Your Life. Here’s How to Get Time Back.
The apps are designed like casinos: endless, curvilinear paths that can be perpetually navigated on autopilot. The key is to find right-angle turns.
Gurwinder Bhogal
Palmer Luckey: I Saw the Future of War. Now It’s Up to Us to Prepare for It.
Technology is now the greatest battlefield advantage. It’s time for Taiwan—and a new generation of innovators—to heed the call to build.
Palmer Luckey
How China Hijacked America’s Climate Fears
In its quest to corner energy supply chains, China is bankrolling climate advocacy groups to weaken the U.S. from within.
Doomberg
The iPhone Update That Could Wreck Political Fundraising
A new feature will intercept text messages and might cost campaigns hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Gabe Kaminsky
Reviewing Men? There’s an App for That.
Straight women are using America’s most-downloaded dating app to anonymously critique potential partners. Men have reacted by publicly humiliating…
River Page
How to De-Addict Gen Z from Porn
Porn has degraded a generation. Two tech bros have come up with an app to save young men from its ‘pit of shame and self-hatred.’
Sean Fischer
What Happens When Your AI Goes Nazi?
Next time you post to X, remember: They’re listening and learning.
Tyler Cowen
Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins
America must win the fight for tech dominance. But can we do so without sacrificing everything that matters?
Robert Bellafiore
Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid?
A viral new research paper claims ChatGPT will stop us from thinking. Really?
Tyler Cowen
Will You Be a Dancing Monkey in the Age of AI?
The big AI question is not whether it will make us feel stupid. It is whether it will make us more competent in managing the lunatic carnival that is…
Martin Gurri
How to Find the Most Talented People on Earth
Today’s rising stars are younger, weirder, and more geographically concentrated than you might think.
Tyler Cowen
WATCH: A Free Press Debate on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and AI “godmother” Fei-Fei Li faced off against computer scientist Jaron Lanier and author Nicholas Carr in our latest…
Isaac Grafstein
1HR 18M
The Gen Zer Making Capitalism Cool Again
Despite being one of the richest generations in human history, Gen Z increasingly feels ‘left behind’ by the capitalist system. Kyla Scanlon is here to…
Shreeda Segan
Today at 4 p.m.: Join Bari Weiss, Tyler Cowen, and Avital Balwit to Talk AI
This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. Find out how.
Bari Weiss
How China Captured Apple
The ‘Think Different’ entanglement with the CCP, the national security risks we’ve ignored, and the $275 billion handshake that changed everything.
Bari Weiss
1HR 31M
AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?
This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a person…
Tyler Cowen and  Avital Balwit
Why Europe’s Lights Went Out
Spain’s blackout is a cautionary tale of overreliance on wind and solar.
Emmet Penney
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