Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

The Creative Writing Program offers students a coherent course of study in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The creative writing minor is firmly grounded within the liberal arts tradition, ...

The English Department offers graduate and undergraduate certificates in creative writing. The undergraduate program is workshop-based, offering a supportive environment with peers and professors as ...

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In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

Opposition lawmakers Gilad Kariv, Alon Schuster and Ram Ben Barak pen a letter to former US president Joe Biden expressing their “deep regret over the inappropriate and untruthful remarks” made by ...