Higher Ed, Research & Learning
Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift’s “psychotic” wedding. A poet’s ode to “Little House on the Prairie.” And more in today’s Weekend Press!
Upbeat on-hold music blared from Jerrica Mickens’ cellphone for nearly 50 minutes as she searched on her laptop for affordable housing for a parent in Detroit. Mickens was on a three-way call with a m...
Walking home, I couldn’t help thinking that despite being more than 400 years old, the show vividly telling the story of the War of the Roses in England has lessons which speak directly to the dynamic...
John Fetterman
Abraham Lincoln vastly admired the founders and the Declaration of Independence. But he felt compelled to add a silent corollary to the clause “all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator w...
Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift's wedding. Plus: Her ode to ‘Jackass.’ An interview with the standard bearer for MAGA’s anti-AI rage. And more in her newsletter!
Kansas City-based Frontier Schools is on track to open Columbia’s first charter school in the fall of 2027. At this point, Frontier Schools has hired a contractor and is looking for possible locations...
COGE meeting on the left, a sign pointing toward the COGE Public Hearing on the right
The anti-AI activist Joe Allen tells Suzy Weiss that he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.
Here at The 74, we publish and syndicate more than 30 articles a week about how America’s education system is evolving in a bid to better serve its 74 million children. But with so much happening and ...
A woman in a backpack walks toward the U.S.-Mexico border
The lesson I’ve learned in 60 years as a journalist is that ideology fails to grasp human creativity, and idealism fails to grasp human imperfection. Most people tend to learn that over time, writes J...
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is only the latest adaptation of a story that has captivated audiences for three millennia. Here's why the epic poem has never lost its hold on us, writes Daniel Mendel...
After years of estrangement from my family—and the collapse of my public life—I found an unexpected path toward forgiveness in the quiet moral world of Walnut Grove, writes Joseph Massey.
Anthropic’s latest research reveals how Claude reasons internally, but it offers no evidence that AI has the kind of consciousness or experience that make us human, writes Spencer Klavan.
Mitch McConnell against a background of money
"He has been sanctioned repeatedly for his reliance on AI without verifying the quotations and citations .... Worse still, while he represented to a court last year that he understands words 'must nev...
Toy gun and law enforcement officers outside a Waymo
A man standing on a field at an American flag on the ground
President Donald Trump pushing a shopping cart with food inside