Times, Trump, Human, Battery, Brooks - Five Things - Issue #277

David Remnick writes about the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and the Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger.

White threat in a browning America.

With Google’s AI assistant able to make phone calls and androids populating households in games and films, the line between machine and man is getting scarily blurred.

Lithium-ion batteries power everythin…