A four-step process teaches students how to use GenAI tools to brainstorm ideas, understand and act on feedback and edit ...

When Czech political dissident, playwright and poet Václav Havel wrote The Power of the Powerless in October 1978, he was not ...

The book is built as a long counter to “Why I Am Not a Christian,” a famous essay by the British polymath Bertrand Russell, ...

Reader disagree with a guest essay that argued that the books feel dated and irrelevant today. Also: What A.I. can’t do in ...

Danielle Wiggins, a historian at Georgetown University, says Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 campaigns used rhetoric, tactics ...

These annual studies are one of the most valuable sources for understanding long term trends about attitudes towards poverty and other indicators of social cohesion. Because they make it possible to ...

Kindness isn’t some polished slogan printed on a card. It’s a subtle power that catches us off guard right when we’ve stopped ...

The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

The historian and Harvard professor reflects on the Republican’s second term: ‘His hold on power is extraordinarily tenuous.

In wake of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and election of anti-Zionist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Jewish Americans do not have a mutually agreed-upon definition of Zionism, findings reveal ...

The problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering truth itself becomes unviable.” ...

That is why Holocaust language matters. When “kapo," “Judenrat," and Nazi comparisons become political slang-used by non-Jews against Israel or by Jews against other Jews-we don’t just offend. We ...