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AI fights conspiracy theories, Massachusetts leads the way on waste reduction, and more in this week’s science news roundup

This has been a bumpy few weeks for fans of right-wing media: First, the Department of Justice accused multiple high-profile pro-Trump influencers of being paid Russian stooges—a scandal that led to the abrupt self-cancellation of Tenet Media, previously the happy home to far-right influencers Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, and others. As if this wasn’t enough, former Fox News firebrand turned podcast host Tucker Carlson made news for giving a fawning interview to a Holocaust denier.

Remember back in the spring when the conventional wisdom was that this Trump campaign was a highly polished operation? Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, we were told, were total professionals.* They’d be bringing a more traditional sense of discipline to the campaign and to Donald Trump himself. Gone would be those days of 2016-style excesses and own goals. This campaign, and this Trump, was going to be different. Democrats beware.

Last week, when New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks sat for an interview with The New York Times, the big headline was that he called New York City’s newly arrived migrants a “godsend” to a school system that has been losing enrollment. The comment would be received as an unremarkable commonsense statement if we did not live in such a fascist-adjacent society.

This has not been a campaign season characterized by high-minded new approaches to economic policy, so when Donald Trump mentioned the idea of a sovereign wealth fund earlier this month in a speech to the Economics Club of New York, it kind of flew past me. “We’ll create America’s own sovereign wealth fund,” Trump said, “to invest in great national endeavors for the benefit of all of the American people. Why don’t we have a wealth fund? Other countries have wealth funds. We have nothing.”

Coming into Tuesday’s presidential debate, one question occupied my mind above all others: Is Trump going to say it? Is he going to accuse people of eating cats and dogs?

When the sociologist Arlie Hochschild observed a set of couples for her book The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home, she tried to make her presence “as unobtrusive as a family dog.” She mostly sat in the living room observing how they ran their households—who gave the kids the bath, who made dinner or did the laundry—and then compared her assessments with how the spouses themselves described their workload. The accumulated details of her observations—the way Evan putters... Читать дальше...

Vice President Kamala Harris needs Senator Jon Tester to win his race in Montana against Tim Sheehy for Democrats to advance her policies should she beat Trump.

Drawings from the September 23, 2024, magazine.

After Trump claimed the 2020 Presidential election was “rigged,” a short documentary shows the effect of election conspiracies in the crucial jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona, through the experience of one elected official.

The latest trends are often derived from unexpected places.

Readers respond to Alec MacGillis’s piece about public-school closures in the U.S.

Nietzche’s kneecaps, Tesla’s caftan, and Tolstoy’s chest hair tell the story.

“Twenty Years,” “The Wisdom of Sheep,” “How to Leave the House,” and “Woodworm.”

Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.

More than beauty, more than color, the artist reveals the doubts that bind us.

In Rumaan Alam’s novel “Entitlement,” a woman goes to work for a rich man’s foundation—and finds herself spinning between worlds.

I think we need to litigate a text you sent in October, 2018, that’s always bothered me and which I’ve been saving for the perfect moment.

Swing state, “Cast Away” style.

“I’m not sure what qualifies as sacred // when I am profane, or, rather, historical.”

“If New York has taught me anything / it’s indifference.”

The Smashing Pumpkins front man and wrestling impresario ponders why Kim Gordon made fun of the band (snobbishness) and worries about being “constrained by wokeness.”

Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and the rest of the Broadway-revival cast meet up in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where Thornton Wilder wrote the original play.

Why Donatien Grau, an adviser at the Louvre, decided to write “De Civitate Angelorum,” a book about Los Angeles, the Roman way.

With the Fed poised to cut rates for the first time in years, what have we learned about the economic disruptions of the pandemic era?