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The evidence is circumstantial, but the list is long. Supporters who have business with the federal government clearly see utility in contributing large amounts to President Donald Trump’s super PAC, ...

Although I teach and edit fiction, I still didn’t think it would ever happen—that an AI-generated or AI-assisted short story would win a major contest. Then came Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the ...

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

S ix weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an ...

That’s the question Alex Wieckowski recently posed to hundreds of thousands of social media followers. Wieckowski is the creator of Alex and Books, a popular website, newsletter, and podcast that ...

May 31 marks the second full moon of the month, known as the blue moon, and with it comes another new single from Peter Gabriel’s slowly gestating project, o\i, “A Hard Lesson.” Like his previous LP, ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

Stephen Colbert is going on an unexpected journey. The comedian has announced a surprising new gig for after "The Late Show" ends in May: He's set to write a new film in the "Lord of the Rings" ...