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 everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars and e-cigarettes. But, with lithium close to breaking point, researchers are scrambling for the next battery breakthrough.

The comic has stormed though 75 years of show business; he remains prodigal in expression, memory, and imagination.

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