At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

AI platforms overwhelmingly cite YouTube, while rivals like TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch barely register in search results, new data shows. YouTube is cited 200x more than any other video platform in AI ...

Remember “Baby Shark Dance?” How about “Gangnam Style?” Those videos were among the most inescapable offerings of the YouTube canon, pumped into our lives by the last vestige of the internet ...

The flood of AI slop isn’t letting up. And it’s splashed into an online space where many seek solace and comfort, or simply a way of numbing the mind to the world in an attempt to accomplish anything ...

A decade ago, journalist András Pethő co-founded the nonprofit investigative site Direkt36. He’d just resigned from Origo, one of Hungary’s leading news sites, over political pressure on the newsroom.

Evelyn Polacek Kery works for the Guardian and is a judge at the Press Awards 2025. When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com ...