In a viral essay on X, “Something Big Is Happening,” Matt Shumer writes that the world is living through a moment similar to early Covid for artificial intelligence. The founder and CEO of OthersideAI argues that AI has crossed from useful assistant to general cognitive substitute. What’s more, AI is now helping build better versions […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is shredding the federal government’s ability to fight climate change.  What happened? On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the end of […]

The Olympics offer a fascinating window into the diets and workout routines of some of the world’s finest athletes, and it would be easy to feel inadequate in the face of these examples of the human body’s awesome potential. We tend to gravitate to extraordinary outliers, like the athletes in the Winter Games. Lindsay Vonn’s […]

The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health.  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that it will publish its final rule to dismantle the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases — the legal foundation of the EPA’s major US climate regulations. But […]

A new villain has emerged in right-wing discourse: the Affluent White Female Urban Liberal, or AWFUL.  Talking heads on Fox News and right-wing YouTubers describe AWFULs as smug, entitled, and even “a cancer on the nation.” AWFULs, their argument goes, are the reason that ICE activities in Minnesota have become so violent. These women are […]