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August 27, 2026

This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R. Smith reports that letters, newly obtained by members of the press, contradict Kennedy’s repeated assertions to members of Congress in early 2025 during his confirmation process

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What If Canada Joined the E.U.?

Global Notes The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic. August 27, 2026 Photograph by Florian Gaertner / Photothek / Getty In February, 2025, I met with a delegation of Canadian ministers visiting Washington, D.C. Their aim

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How to Lose a Trade War

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own. The story may not be over. Donald Trump is notorious

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August 26, 2026

Last night, at exactly 9:25—9 to 5—the top of the Empire State Building in New York City lit up pink. The antennas of Chicago’s Willis Tower—formerly the Sears Tower—lit up pink, too. So did the Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier, which also sported a giant pink heart. The

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Las IA que atacan en enjambre desafían a sus creadores: “Es el primer incidente que me ha revuelto las tripas”

Este verano, en cuestión de semanas, las mayores compañías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han anunciado, una tras otra, que habían sorprendido a sus modelos haciendo cosas que nadie les había pedido, incluso que les habían prohibido: han entrado en sistemas de otras empresas, se han organizado en “enjambres”, tal y

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How Universities Should Prepare Founders

August 2026 How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We're like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine its model of what a promising founder looks like, you probably

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Autonomy and Innovation

Listen to this post: Log in to listen While not every Western followed the cliché, by the 1930s cowboy serials had landed on a consistent visual cue: the hero of the show wore a white hat, and the villain wore a black one. At the end of the day, however,

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Las IA que atacan en enjambre desafían a sus creadores: “Es el primer incidente que me ha revuelto las tripas”

Este verano, en cuestión de semanas, las mayores compañías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han anunciado, una tras otra, que habían sorprendido a sus modelos haciendo cosas que nadie les había pedido, incluso que les habían prohibido: han entrado en sistemas de otras empresas, se han organizado en “enjambres”, tal y

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The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp

You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to. I’ll explain. This past Sunday, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia—who has become quite good at delivering viral campaign sound bites, slickly filmed by multiple cameras—unleashed a blistering indictment of President Trump’s leadership. Ossoff, a former documentary

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Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing of a transformer and a transistor. But the transistor deserves its own headline, because it's maybe

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What Natalie Harp Carries

Critic’s Notebook Trump’s devoted aide, who is said to follow the President around with a printer, does not seem to be driven by the conventional desires for wealth and power. August 22, 2026 Photograph by Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at

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‘Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España’: chanchullos, aventuras y rapiñas explicadas por un soldado escritor

Alejo Carpentier, profundo conocedor de los orígenes, esencias y comportamientos de la identidad del Nuevo Mundo, autor del concepto identitario que llamó “lo real maravilloso americano” —que además estilizó en su novelística—, afirmó que el “descubrimiento” de América, que se materializa en 1492, era el acontecimiento más trascendente de la

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Why Millennial Professionals Are Embracing Socialism

Fault Lines How I Became a Subaru Socialist By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. August 18, 2026 Illustration by George Wylesol This is part of a series of columns about young people and the

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The Wrong Kind of American

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. At the CIA, they’d started an office pool on when I’d be fired. President Trump would be sworn in for his second term at noon; the smart money had me gone by 12:15. But the smart money hadn’t counted on Trump’s

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Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history. Listen · 9:43 min Galina Bobreneva and her husband, Brent Jindra, at their home in Redwood City, Calif.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Published Aug.

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