Most of us are lucky enough to avoid any direct encounter with the true nature of Donald Trump’s presidency. But over time, ...

No one saw it coming, and no one quite knows how it happened, but Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland have become a phenomenon.

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Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a ...

The relationship between mutual intelligibility and linguistic classification is famously complex, often boiling down to ...

OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate “innovation,” contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising ...

Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. In a Sportico column last May, we argued fun remains ...

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...