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For your book The West: The History of an Idea, you spent 12 years researching what people mean when they talk about “the west”. At a…

Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA),…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsOn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on…

Keith Serry was set to bring a show to New York City’s Fringe festival this year, but pulled the plug a few weeks out. After 35…

This is Camila. She’s trying to figure out how cancer spreads across the body. David here is trying to cure H.I.V. And Rachael, she’s trying to…

In the summer of 1930, the U.S. secretaries of war and the Navy developed War Plan Red, a 94-page document laying out detailed plans to strangle…

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Nadav Lapid’s Yes, the Israeli director’s political satire set in the aftermath of October 7. Set in…

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy, claims that beef tallow is a healthier alternative to seed oils (even though the American Heart Association disagrees). Raw…

On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver delved into the “Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement, a “big tent” group that’s “not just…

New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: in 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached…