Teachers Worry About Students Using A.I. But They Love It for Themselves.
Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.
MLB Power Rankings: Cincinnati, Cleveland on the climb; What a difference a year makes
In this week’s Rankings, we take a look at where each team ranked exactly one year ago and what that might tell us about where they are now.
From Kobe Bryant to Hockey Canada: Athletes and the pursuit of ‘consent’ in the digital age
While the effort to record consent before sexual encounters is on the rise, one expert cautions those videos “may be misleading.”
How Japanese Superfans Redefined What It Means to Be Obsessed
Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture.
Why Japan Counts 72 Microseasons
To accompany this essay, the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi created an original series, “Kaze Hikaru” (Glittering, 2025), based on things growing for six weeks between February and March near where she lives in Futtsu, in Chiba Prefecture. “The …