I haven’t seen my father, Jimmy Lai, in three years. The most recent pictures that have emerged show him surrounded by guards in a Hong Kong prison courtyard during his 50 minutes of daily exercise. He looks thinner, his skin darker. But this will …
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There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in A.I. technology have also brought forth a …
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Discarding a belief in God can feel like an intellectual rite of passage to adulthood. Just as our bodies develop and change, so can our relationship to things spiritual, leading us sometimes to set aside organized religion. For African Americans, in …
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Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ With four ongoing criminal investigations, Donald Trump is the most indicted president in U.S. history. After years of defying unwritten norms, he will now be subject to a criminal justice system defined by norms and …
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West Marin is hoping to become a Dark Sky community.
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Pecans were a cash crop for my grandparents, who supplemented their unreliable farm income in any way they could. My grandfather drove the school bus. My grandmother taught math. Unlike peanuts, the farm’s primary crop, pecans required no planting …
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With the “cheese slice trick” and the “egg crack challenge,” parents vie for viral recognition — and the illusion of control over their children.
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The theatrically combative presidential candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy seems to be premised on two messages. One is his disdain for identity politics, which he argues creates a citizenry obsessed with victimhood and a corporate sector in thrall to …
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I want to begin this column by sharing with you one of the worst things I ever did. I was only 18 years old, but that was no excuse. Late one night I got a call from a close friend. “My dad’s on the way to the hospital,” he said. “It’s really bad …
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Ava and I visited Paris twice on our vacation, at the beginning and again at the end of our trip. On those two occasions we saw two different cities, like the two city-states that occupy the same physical space in China Miéville’s novel “The City …
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