NotableWe just saw the limit of American military might. “How did the world’s richest nation armed with the most powerful military arrive at this strategic defeat?” — W.J. Hennigan, an Opinion writer America’s first pope pays homage to its first saint. “The pope’s Cabrini pilgrimage, like his election to the chair of Peter, is an invitation to Americans to see themselves as global citizens while their government appears to be retreating into political, cultural and economic isolation.” — Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian of Catholicism How did I end up a U.F.C. mom? “I did wonder, one Saturday night, and not for the first time, how this could have happened: my angelic sons transfixed, gleeful, even, at this gaudy brutality.” — Hope Reeves, a freelance journalist Spotlight
The Doom Trolling Needs to StopThe major A.I. companies keep telling us how dangerous their new models can be, yet they must keep on building them. ICYMIThe most important way that fatherhood has changed. “Mark’s and Harry’s intimate presence in their children’s lives affirms our culture’s fitful movement away from archaic, cinching gender roles.” — Frank Bruni, contributing Opinion writer More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “How Tehran Won the World”
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