Lena Dunham’s latest memoir is the top-ranked title on the New York Times Best Sellers list. The mid-tier actress and producer—best known for dating musician Jack Antonoff before he upgraded (spectacularly) by marrying Margaret Qualley—posted a video last week of her reaction to hearing the news. “Screaming, crying, throwing up,” she wrote. “Almost two decades
The effort to impede American AI innovation has made inroads with Bernie Sanders, who is set to speak on ‘the existential threat of AI’ alongside two CCP-backed academics AI, Chinese flag (cokada/Grabien), Xi Jinping (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images) Propaganda outlets controlled by China—as well as Russia and Iran—are promoting campaigns in the United States
A businessman who was ostracized in Silicon Valley for social media posts that demonized Israel is being touted by Harvard as a star speaker at an upcoming conference on artificial intelligence. Amjad Masad, the CEO of a Foster City, California-based artificial intelligence company called Replit, posted in June 2025 that “Israel is the most destabilizing
CAIR Action, the pro-Hamas nonprofit’s political arm, heavily backed Rep. Derek Tran in 2024 race Rep. Derek Tran pictured with Hussam Ayloush (@RepDerekTranCA/X) Leaders at the Council on American-Islamic Relations have touted the pro-Hamas group’s role in electing Democratic Rep. Derek Tran (Calif.) over a pro-Israel Republican in 2024. Now, Tran is giving the controversial
An Obama and Biden State Department administration official who participated in the negotiations that led to the 2015 deal that gave Iran $700 billion in sanctions relief in exchange for promises of an unverifiable temporary pause in its nuclear weapons program is now complaining that President Trump doesn’t have enough expert advice. Wendy Sherman, who
Wikipedia editors have also kept information about the human smuggling charges Jia Tolentino’s parents faced from her page on the website Wikipedia (zmeel/Grabien), Jia Tolentino (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Wikipedia editors have spent years removing negative information from New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino’s page, including her recent admission to stealing from Whole Foods and the
Disney executives are facing a familiar crisis regarding their favorite in-house comedian: Just how offensive must Jimmy Kimmel’s on-camera behavior be before they have to bite the bullet and fire him? So far, Kimmel—who won a stand-off last year with Disney, which owns ABC, after his eponymous late-night comedy program was briefly suspended for making