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Perhaps in this Age of Disinformation, we shouldn’t be surprised that the shameless BS used to peddle ChatGPT and other large language models(LLMs) matches the shameless BS generated by these models.

Democrats' best chance to counter Republican redistricting in Texas lies in California, a predominantly Democratic state that has the largest number of congressional districts in the country (52).

Redistricting is a complicated process. Redistricting mid-cycle, amid swirling political implications, is perhaps even more convoluted. Prof. Sara Sadhwani weighs in.

Professors Ryan Engley, Jo Hardin, Charlotte Chang, Char Miller and Pamela Prickett will appear on NPR's The Academic Minute the week of Aug. 11, sharing insights from their groundbreaking research with listeners across the country.

Prof. Jonathan Lethem's "2047: Meet David Allen, the Minister of Commemoration" is featured in the Los Angeles Times.

"We forget what we don’t want to remember," Miller writes. "While I understand that impulse, there are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley, or what we like to call the Hill Country."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to counteract GOP gerrymandering in Texas by redrawing electoral lines in the Golden State, which currently skew Democratic, despite having over 5.7 million registered Republican voters.  

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said the tariffs faced by the southeast Asian country would be reduced from 32% to 19% in exchange for "full access" for American firms.

The pervasiveness of technology on campuses poses a distinct threat to small residential liberal-arts colleges, writes The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf '02. Pomona faculty weigh in.

In 2023, Japan’s Self-Defense Force fell 50 percent short of its recruitment target. The following year, the number of babies born fell to a record low for the ninth consecutive year.