ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · ACADEMIC INTEGRITY · WORKFORCE SKILLS
A UCLA student sits for an online final with a camera watching, a
mirror behind her, and her arms positioned so the professor can
see she is not secretly consulting a machine.¹
That may have begun as academic integrity. By the time it gets to
mirrors, crossed arms, hands behind heads, suspicion over Google
Docs timestamps, and students building an alibi for every draft,
it has become something else. It has become training in
distrust.¹
This is one of the stranger things about the arrival of
artificial intelligence. The same country that cannot wait to
sell every office worker a productivity tool is teaching many
students that the same tool is contraband. The same employers who…
The Postal Service’s proposed
ballot-mail rule would require
new voter data checks, risking
delays and rejected absentee…
The Bill Has Found the View
LOCAL · MUNICIPAL FINANCE
At the end of Mechanic Street,
Portsmouth New Hampshire
becomes almost too beautiful
for arithmetic. The road runs
out near…
The road runs out near Prescott
Park and Point of Graves, where
slate headstones lean toward
the harbor and old houses hold
their place against the water.
Then everybody flushes.
Beneath that view sits the…
A Good Exit From a Bad Iran
War
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS · NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY
The U.S.-Iran memorandum ends
active conflict and reopens the
Strait of Hormuz but defers key
nuclear issues for future…
NEW HAMPSHIRE · COMMUNITY
Squamscot Old Fashioned
Beverages, a Newfields, New…
FOOD CULTURE · RESTAURANTS
Rising and uneven food prices
are reshaping dinner choices…
POLITICAL POWER · NEW ENGLAND
The narrative of Thanksgiving
often overlooks the devastation
Indigenous communities faced
before the Pilgrims’ arrival in…
WHITE HOUSE · POLITICAL POWER
The White House has been
transformed into a federally
franchised dining complex
featuring fast-food outlets and…