Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it.

The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning.

From the Daily newsletter: confronting the epidemic of political violence.

Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government.

A new political era has arrived, in which the expectation and the fear of political violence are endemic.

On Tuesday, the thirty-three-year-old left-wing mayoral candidate sent an unmissable message to his party: be new.

The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.”

Public opinion is turning on the President’s policies, but it might not be enough to keep the country from entering a much darker phase.

After a shooting with obvious political resonance, news about the perpetrator’s motives rarely brings clarity.

Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.