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For the better part of a decade, a new moral and political framework swept through American life. Its critics called it “wokeness”; its adherents called it social justice. From Black Lives Matter to #MeToo to DEI, its initiatives were embraced by schools, corporations, newsrooms, and the highest levels of government—reaching the very height of their pow…
Welcome back to This Week in Canada, where the weekend collapse of trade talks with the U.S. leaves us asking: What the hell happened? And what did we win and lose when Prime Minister Carney told Canada’s negotiators to walk away from the table? Let’s get to it.
It’s Monday, August 24. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Bill Barr on the Democrats’ antisemitism denial. Kara Kennedy on why moms are filming themselves throwing ice at bathtubs. Robert Wright on AI’s real threat. And much more.
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Robert Wright has been talking about human nature and technology since before most people knew what a podcast was, going back to a video platform he co-founded in 2005 called Bloggingheads.tv. His new book, The God Test, makes an argument that stuck with me: AI isn’t ...
Since the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense has been trying to remake Stars and Stripes, the newspaper first published during the Civil War and then revived during the world wars to give our fighting men and ...