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In this issue

Abandoned
In rural Afghanistan, mothers and babies are already facing the consequences of deep cuts to U.S. humanitarian assistance.
By Elise Blanchard

Getting There First
As U.S. and Chinese firms race to achieve artificial general intelligence, high geopolitical stakes could expose the globe to a new kind of threat.
By Billy Perrigo

PUTIN’S BRUSH-OFF

The Kremlin appears in no rush to negotiate peace with Ukraine—despite Trump’s efforts

3 mins

Why are so many women leaving the workforce?

212,000. THAT'S HOW MANY WOMEN AGES 20 AND OVER have left the U.S. workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released Aug. 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (By contrast, 44,000 men of the same age have entered the workforce since January.) The numbers are especially stark for women with children. From January to June, the labor-force participation rate of women ages 25 to 44 living with a child under 5 fell nearly 3 percentage points, from 69.7% to 66.9%, says Misty Lee Heggeness, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Kansas.

2 mins

5 ways to make small talk when you have social anxiety

WHEN YOU HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETY, WALKING INTO A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE every eyeball in the place is boring directly into your soul, and that nothing you say will possibly be smart or funny or coherent enough.

2 mins

POOR VOTE, SWING VOTE

On the one hand, this is the worst of times: power is concentrated in the hands of people who pray at the opening of Congress, then prey on the people they swore an oath to serve.

3 mins

In exile, I lost India but gained a home

ON NOV. 7, 2019, THE GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi revoked my Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), effectively banning me from the country I grew up in. India was where my mother and grandmother lived. Where four out of my five books of fiction and nonfiction were set. Where I had returned after college in the U.S. with the aim of being “an Indian writer.”

6 mins

The D.C. Brief

IN NORMAL TIMES, THE FIRST Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.

2 mins

'I'm afraid'

What U.S. aid cuts mean for the women of Afghanistan

5 mins

ΜΑΝ ON THE STREET

ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS POISED TO BECOME NEW YORK'S NEXT MAYOR. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

10+ mins

THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

MATTHEW PRINCE HAD TO BE CONVERTED to the belief that AI is eating the web.

3 mins

Beyond human control

THE RACE FOR ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE POSES NEW RISKS TO AN UNSTABLE WORLD

10+ mins

Where electricity bills are on the ballot

Clockwise from top left: downtown Atlanta at night; high-voltage transmission lines near Rome, Ga.; a QTS data center in Atlanta's Howell Station neighborhood; Georgia Power's coal-fired Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Ga.

10+ mins

AI will reshape politics globally

FEW POLITICAL LEADERS REALIZE THE RATE AT which artificial intelligence is racing ahead.

5 mins

The agentic age: a new frontier for AI and humans

FOR THE PAST YEAR, I’VE BEEN RUNNING SALES- force with a colleague who never sleeps, never takes vacations, and has read more than I could in 100 lifetimes. On a typical day, sitting with a few executives around the table, I’ll ask it to evaluate a competitor's moves, refine a keynote draft, or surface strategic blind spots we might have missed.

5 mins

SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT

In The Roses, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch embrace a movie season of not- so-romantic comedies

6 mins

Two good men confront the Task of forgiveness

CRIME DRAMAS, IN OUR DISTRACTED TIMES, TEND TO front-load said crimes. More often than not, there’s a murder within the first five minutes. This is only one of the genre’s many implicit rules that HBO’s Task breaks. The series from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby opens with a montage of quotidian scenes from the lives of two men. Weary Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) folds his hands in prayer, dunks his face in a sink full of ice water, downs Advil while driving. Rugged Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey) carries his sleeping son to bed, pours himself a tall mug of coffee, perks up at a radio ad for a dating app.

3 mins

Laufey The Grammy-winning, genre-blending musician on pushing herself creatively, making her latest album, and confiding in Norah Jones

There is a lot of talk about how exactly to label your music: jazz or pop. Does that ever get annoying?

2 mins

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