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How nature metaphors shade technology companies from scrutiny

IN 2006, at an industry conference, thenGoogle-CEO Eric Schmidt introduced a now ubiquitous term: \"the cloud.\"

BLOOD, SOIL, AND GRASS-FED BEEF

The left once led discussions on global capitalism's harm to the world and your gut. Not anymore.

NEWSGUARD MISINFORMATION MONITOR 'Verified'

Elon Musk's Twitter is giving legitimacy to dozens of influential misinformers

Mom and Dad Turn Landlord

With more Millennials and Gen Zers living at home, some parents have started charging rent

Off-the-Grid Destinations for a Digital Detox

Push alerts, the ringing phone, texts, emails, pop-up meeting requests and video conferences-it seems like we can't ever quite get away from the digital lifestyle that has transformed the way we work. But...you actually can. There are plenty of intriguing destinations-both nearby and far away from work and home-that encourage you to leave the digitally connected world behind. When you want to take the road less traveled for an adventure, relax at an all-inclusive relaxation-focused experience, or simply commune with nature; there are incredible destinations just waiting... with no distractions

"Healthy Eating Shouldn't Be a Privilege"

Actress and entrepreneur Zooey Deschanel on making healthy choices and fighting \"food deserts\"

SUNK COST

A NEWSWEEK INVESTIGATION REVEALS THE SECRET CONSTRAINTS THAT WEAKEN THE U.S. NAVY'S SUBMARINE FLEET MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR

THE LEFT-RIGHT SPECTRUM IS MOSTLY MEANINGLESS

THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE DOESN'T FIT ON A SIMPLE MAP.

FAILING TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY MEANS MANDATORY CUTS

WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden sparred with Republicans during his State of the Union address in February, he vowed to veto any attempt at cutting Social Security benefits. Yet the budget proposal he unveiled in March lacked a plan to avert the mandatory Social Security benefit cuts that are quickly approaching.

THE BIOMEDICAL TESTING REVOLUTION

“CANCER SIGNAL NOT detected.” That was the happy finding of my Galleri multicancer early detection (MCED) blood test from the Silicon Valley biotech company GRAIL. The Galleri test presages an emerging wave of new precision biomedical tests produced by a panoply of biotech startups.

Diana Alvarez Knows She's 'Doing the Right Thing' Running a D.C. Smoke Shop

Diana Alvarez’s son always wanted to go to college, so she started working in a smoke shop to earn some extra cash.

Fighting the Feds in the American South

JEFFERSON COWIE IS a prodigious researcher who often shows sensitivity to historical complexities, and his narrative skills shine. The Vanderbilt historian’s latest book, Freedom’s Dominion, is readable and often provocative. But it superimposes a dubious thesis about Southern his tory over the facts, arguing that “land dispossession, slavery, power, and oppression do not stand in contrast to freedom— they are expressions of it.”

WILL 2024 BRING THE RETURN OF THE NEOCONS?

THE GOP NOMINEE CAN FORGE A HUMBLER PATHOR TURN BACK TO FAILED NEOCONSERVATISM.

The Most Hated Person on Campus

HOW A SHAKY ALLEGATION IGNITED A FRENZY AND DESTROYED A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE

MARC ANDREESSEN ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE

Is the A.I. breakthrough for real this time?

ZEROT AMERICA

SECRECY IS THE DEGRADED CURRENCY OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT.

Who Owns Your Brain Data?

WE ARE RAPIDLY heading toward a world of brain transparency, in which scientists, doctors, governments, and companies may peer into our brains and minds at will,” Duke University bioethicist Nita A. Farahany declares in The Battle for Your Brain. As a defense against this neuro surveillance, her timely book argues for a right to cognitive liberty that includes “mental privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination”—a right that allows us to track and hack our own brains but bars us from trespassing on other minds.

Storks Don't Take Orders From the State

FALLING BIRTHRATES, PRO-NATALIST POLICIES, AND THE LIMITS OF POPULATION CONTROL

IS HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MAKING ANTI-SEMITISM WORSE?

Using dead Jews as symbols isn't helping living ones.

How to Look at a Vermeer

The artist left behind few clues about his life or intentions, but the paintings themselves teach the viewer new ways to see.

How Taylor Swift Infiltrated Dude Rock

On the unlikeliest, most fruitful collaboration in contemporary music

The Pornography Paradox

Reformers fear that ever more outré sites are warping users' desires. But transgression has always been part of the appeal.

The Poet Facing Down the End of the World

Jorie Graham has a message for us

The MAGIC KINGDOM of RON DESANTIS

My very British romp through America's weirdest state

The Ice-Cream Conspiracy

STUDIES SHOW A MYSTERIOUS HEALTH BENEFIT TO ICE CREAM. SCIENTISTS DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

MOST TRUSTWORTHY COMPANIES IN AMERICA 2023

IN ANY GOOD RELATIONSHIP, THE ONE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT is trust. It's hard to build, easy to lose and sometimes you think you have more of it than you really do.

Las Vegas Tops Nation as Eviction Crisis Spreads

Filings in some cities more than doubled in 2022 with pandemic protections ending. Tenant advocates fear rising rents will only make it worse

It's Time to Address the Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Lenient rules for biotech research have put the world at risk. Let's not that mistake with Al

The Story of an Enduring Game from a Dark Time

Anew film tells how Tetris came from behind the lron Curtain to conquer the planet

Keri Russell

CHARACTERIZING KERI RUSSELL'S NEW SHOW THE DIPLOMAT (NETFLIX, April 20) is difficult, but that's part of its charm.