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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . Americans don’t trust one another, and they don’t trust the government. This mistrust is so pervasive that it
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Ezra Klein The Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideas Oct. 26, 2023 Credit... Eric Risberg/Associated Press By Opinion Columnist In July, Marc Andreessen — the godfather o
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Y ou can tell a Nintendo game not just from its feel – the satisfying swish of Link’s sword in the Zelda games, the weight of Mario’s jump – but by its look. They are bright, energetic, characterful.
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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator behind the viral AI Drake song, has released another track — and this time, it features the AI-generated voi
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Michael Mann doesn’t just make movies. He builds them from scratch. The director tells me that, before shooting Ferrari , he and his team put together a packet containing the specifications needed to
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D onald Trump’s packing of the supreme court, to which he appointed three members, to create a reliable conservative majority, has been hailed by the right as his greatest achievement. The Wall Street
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