The week’s big story has been about China’s DeepSeek low-cost AI model. Because DeepSeek requires fewer advanced chips, its ...
Donald Trump made his fortune by speculating in real estate. These days, Christopher Luxon makes a lot of his money the very ...
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A home for longform journalism on politics, art and culture.
A home for longform journalism on politics, art and culture.
Yesterday’s demotion of Shane Reti was inevitable. Reti’s attempt at a re-assuring bedside manner always did have a limited shelf life, and he would have been a poor and apologetic salesman on the ...
This isn’t merely an irony. It goes to the contradictions that lie at the heart of the Trump presidency. His most fervent ...
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Early reports indicate that the temporary Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal (due to take effect on Sunday) will allow for the gradual release of groups of Israeli hostages, the release of an unspecified ...
The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.