Comparison: Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors, fired half of the...

Comparison: So the best way I've learned to describe it [when an algorithm interprets individual bits of data], and this is almost ten...

Comparison: . . . 2025 could be a year like that: a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the...

Comparison: . . . the 2024 election was not a traditional binary choice between two coherently opposed political alternatives, the...

Comparison: Trust acts as both glue and grease. It glues together bonds of cooperation, while at the same time it greases the flows of...

Comparison: [concerning a public opinion poll wherein respondents were substantially off the mark concerning the amount of total foreign...

Comparison: Bound by shared ideology, militias are more porous than outsiders would think. Members often cycle between groups like square...

Comparison: ‘Trump came down in June of 2015, and for 10 years there’s been no real work done to even begin to understand populism,...

Comparison: [a cell in the human body as seen by a scientist:] . . . one can almost imagine that it’s a bit like a backyard pool, with...

Comparison: Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the [2024] election was like getting the car serviced....

Comparison: During his first term, Mr. Trump functioned less as a coach calling plays and more as a cantankerous owner demanding that his...

Comparison: Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want...

Comparison: ‘I think the equivalent of what Mike Johnson has had to do over the last couple weeks is like trying to eat a live...

Comparison: ‘It’s horrible,‘ Jon [Kromenhoek] said about how everything has unfolded. ‘Absolutely horrible. It’s super emotional. I guess...

Comparison: It felt as if I now lived in my own portable, perpetual ghost town. Former President Barack Obama reflects on the controlled,...

Comparison: The Lions’ defense is basically held together with scotch tape at this point, after accumulating a list of injuries unlike...

Comparison: This reality brought us the informational landscape of the 2024 election, in which the two candidates were out chasing an...

Comparison: The campaign staff are like the guys with the brooms that are frantically sweeping the ice as this 44-pound rock slides along...

Comparison: Electoral campaigns always feature some degree of political spin. But combatting Mr. Trump’s claims is like wrestling with...

Comparison: “Bold and unrelenting. Someone using a power drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.“ Ah, to what may we compare the sting of...