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The rise of a “shadow gospel” reveals how deeply the language of demons and deliverance has shaped American politics.


What seemed at first like a simple game about waiting turned into a study in design focused on time, endurance, and audience experience.


Libertarian fantasies thrive on ecological collapse, profiting from the very destruction they helped to accelerate.


Selections from "Output," an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.


Left unchecked, the technique, which weaponizes emotional data for political gain, could erode the foundations of a fair and informed society.


Meryl Alper, ethnographer and author of “Kids Across the Spectrums,” explores the role of media and technology in the everyday lives of children on the autism spectrum.


The next time you catch yourself doomscrolling, take it as an invitation to own your own horror.


A little-known story of Marjorie Van de Water, who, in her coverage of psychology and psychiatry, popularized a new journalistic beat among U.S. news reporters.


On whiling away time before we have to be ourselves online again.