The anti-Semitic U.N. official Francesca Albanese says Donald Trump’s plan to make Gaza the “Riviera of the Middle East” is “worse than ethnic cleansing.” We’ve heard a lot of that sort of rhetoric in the wake of Trump’s announcement, so we asked the eminent historian Andrew Roberts to weigh in. Nations and peoples that start
Federal agencies have awarded nearly $50 million over the past four years to the Aspen Institute and the Atlantic Council—well-funded liberal think tanks which between them boast 50 donors who have given them at least $1 million—for projects that include a $6 million program to provide “virtual exchanges” for students in the Middle East, and
As the Trump administration works to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), current and former U.S. officials who worked closely with the embattled aid group say they watched for years as it funneled millions of dollars to anti-Israel advocacy groups and entities linked to terrorism. That funding caused internal friction across multiple
In case you haven’t noticed, the late-night talk shows are getting clobbered. Ratings for “top-rated” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are down 32 percent from five years ago, pulling in a 9 percent share of TV audiences in its time slot. (Maybe it’s the lousy skits? Or politics?) Contrast this with The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, which in its
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Carson, the late-night television talk show host and, at his peak in the 1970s and ’80s, probably the most famous and best-paid entertainer in the USA. To celebrate the occasion we have this just-published fanboy biography, Carson the Magnificent. The book has had a
Perhaps the best that can be said for Gary Marcus’s new book sounding the alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence is that it comes from a good place. A decorated AI developer, a renowned neuroscientist and psychologist, and a highly successful entrepreneur, Marcus notes at the outset of Taming Silicon Valley, his polemic against
Twenty-two-year-old Haliey Welch, who went viral for coining the phrase “Hawk Tuah,” launched the most recent iteration of the dating app this year: Pookie Tools, which coaches individuals on how to interact with each other virtually instead of pairing matches like a regular dating app. The AI-driven program can analyze dating app profiles and rank