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Jokes about Newsom’s dyslexia reveal harmful, persistent myth
The president has repeatedly mocked Gov. Gavin Newsom for being dyslexic. It’s a cheap shot, but it’s also proof of something more deeply troubling: an entrenched and damaging assumption that people who struggle to read, write or organize their thoughts are somehow less capable, less intelligent or less worthy of leadership. That assumption is wrong.
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Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
Would you vote a former Palantir employee into Congress? Maybe your first instinct is no. But what if you knew that a super PAC, funded by some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most powerful people, including Palantir’s own cofounder, was in heated agreement with you? I’m talking about New York Assembly member Alex Bores, a
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The results are in, and same-sex marriage was a win for children and society
Prior to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, opponents raised alarms about the severe and immediate harms that would surely occur if marriages between same-sex couples were recognized nationally. Afterward, when those harms failed to materialize, those voices grew quieter, but some have been returning with renewed vigor, in hopes that the current Supreme Court,
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The Supreme Court could legalize moonshine, and ruin everything else
On Friday, a federal appeals court struck down a nearly 160-year-old federal law prohibiting people from distilling liquor in their own home. That’s a fairly momentous event in its own right — any claim that a law that’s been on the books since Reconstruction is unconstitutional should be greeted with a heaping spoonful of skepticism.
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Questions remain over whether husband of missing Lynette Hooker can actually leave Bahamas after he’s freed from jail
Questions remain over whether the husband of missing American Lynette Hooker can actually leave the Bahamas after he was released from jail. Brian Hooker, 59, was let go by the Bahamian authorities around 7.20 p.m. Monday after being holed up in custody for five days, probed over the disappearance of his wife of almost 25
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Hegseth’s Unholy War
“The devil,” William Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice, “can cite Scripture for his purpose.” As we’ve seen in recent weeks, so can Pete Hegseth. Late last month, during the first Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, the secretary of defense cast the conflict as essentially religious and spiritual
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The Gamblers Behind One of Chess’s Weirdest Unsolved Cheating Mysteries Have Been Unmasked
The modern era of cheating in chess began on a Thursday in July 1993, when a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks walked into the World Open tournament in Philadelphia and registered as John von Neumann. Both the hair and the name were phony. The real Von Neumann was a prominent mathematician and computer scientist who died
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Films From Kantemir Balagov, Radu Jude Headed to Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
Will be part of the lineup of the independent Directors’ Fortnight sidebar to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced at a press conference on Tuesday morning in Paris. Films in the Fortnight will include Russian director Kantemir Balagov’s English-language film “Butterfly Jam,” with Riley Keough and Barry Keoghan, which will open the section; the
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I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT
—akinbostanci—Getty Images Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal about human nature. Playing chess with LLMs has taught
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Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion
On Easter Sunday, US Department of Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins sent out an email titled “He has risen!” to the entire agency. In the email, Rollins calls the story of Jesus Christ the “greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind.” One USDA employee called the email