This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

S ix weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an ...

OpenAI targets up to $1 trillion valuation, IPO could come as early as September, source says Rival Anthropic and SpaceX also pursue IPOs, intensifying competition for investor capital Jury ruled ...

The prospect of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe raises unsettling theological implications. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham covers faith and religion. The dozen or so pastors and podcasters who ...

Marc Maron plays a great actor in “In Memoriam,” but the comedian and podcaster worried he didn’t have the chops to pull off a key moment in the new movie. “I had to cry, but I didn’t know if I had ...

Fans at the annual country festival were treated to a surprise when Wilson joined McGraw on stage during his set at Nissan Stadium. The two sang a duet version of his 1995 hit "I Like It I Love It." ...

Julia Ward Howe, the author of the “Battle Hymn”—she wrote it in one fevered night at the Willard Hotel, in Washington, D.C.—received either $4 or $5 for her submission. It was published in our ...

This clarion call about the impoverishment of children’s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading Every day, on my walk to work, I pass a primary school. A group of little people are ...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) arrives at the Capitol on May 12. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images) COLUMBIA, S.C. — There’s nothing like a circus for entertainment, especially if you enjoy the blood ...

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...

In Chicago, the $850 million Obama Presidential Center aims to remake a neighborhood with a 19.3-acre community hub and a brooding 225-foot museum. critic’s notebook In Chicago, the $850 million Obama ...

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio Code 1.123 alongside its annual developer conference, Build 2026. This release, as always, has a heavy focus on advanced AI agent integration and making the ...