President Donald Trump speaks at the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Medinah, Ill., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The world is facing at least three crises today that cannot be resolved by any one country. Two are longer-term and arguably existential: the threat of uncontrolled artificial intelligence and the growing impact of climate change. One is shorter-term and damaging the global economy: the disruption of shipping l

Israel is treating the new documentary “NAZA,” by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, less like bad publicity than a national security crisis. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation t

By JAMELLE BOUIE At a fundamental level, artificial intelligence leaders, evangelists and their allies want you to believe that this novel technology demands a novel political approach. Calls for self-regulation from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and other such companies rest on the idea that the AI labs and their funders are the only people equipped to handle and regulate this potentially dangerous technology. This is why, for example, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, rec

The OpenAI offices in San Francisco, July 21, 2026. Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, agreed with the Anthropic chief’s call to slow down artificial intelligence advancements. (Lucas Foglia/The New York Times) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” That’s what President Donald Trump said about the COVID-19 outbreak on Feb. 10, 2020, about a month before it forced our country and the w

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, Feb. 27, 2026. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Twice during President Donald Trump’s first term, his administration tried to prevent a journalist whose work it did not like from reporting at the White House. Twice, judges rejected the moves as unconstitutional and restored the journalists’ access. Now the administration is attempting the same move, barring journa

The Bucaneros of Arroyo opened their Central Amateur Baseball League Confederation season by sweeping a doubleheader against the Guayacanes of Guayanilla. By NICHOLAS KRISTOF President Xi Jinping of China is throwing his weight around as he prepares to arrive in Washington. When Chinese and American leaders gathered for summits in the past, it was the American president who held the cards. Not so this time. What’s sobering about Xi’s visit to the United States in the coming d

After multiple incidents of AI agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech’s most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing. (Danielle Ezzo/The New York Times) By TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM After multiple incidents of artificial intelligence agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech’s most powerful sooth

A demonstrator holds a sign at a data center protest in Kenilworth, N.J., July 18, 2026. (Grade Solomon/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Seven out of 10 Americans oppose data centers in their communities, according to Gallup, and they have good reason to be wary of artificial intelligence and all that comes with it. The data center debate sometimes is contested in the weeds of electricity prices, water supply and nondisclosure agreements, but more broadly it’s a proxy

“Creators who anguish over the consequences of their creations are nothing new,” writes New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. (Tamara Porras/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS Creators who anguish over the consequences of their creations are nothing new. Alfred Nobel and dynamite, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, even Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web: Regrets, they had more than a few. Now it’s the turn of the parents and nursemaids of the artificial intel

A detail shows black staining on the marble capital of an exterior column in Washington, July 4, 2026. (Sam Gulliver/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG The thing I’ve found most shocking about Donald Trump’s second presidency is not the epic grift, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement paramilitary violence, or the assaults on free speech. These abuses, while horrifying, are predictable. What has stunned me has been the capitulation of so many American elites to Trump