William Falk
William Falk is editor-in-chief of The Week, and has held that role since the magazine's first issue in 2001. He has previously been a reporter, columnist, and editor at the Gannett Westchester Newspapers and at Newsday, where he was part of two reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes.
Latest articles by William Falk
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The soul of a machine
Talking Point Will artificial intelligence ever be conscious?
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Rewarding Putin for invading
Talking Point Should we let him partition Ukraine so he’s not humiliated?
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America's metastatic cancer
Talking Point How rampant distrust is killing us
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The next Prohibition
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Acceptable casualties
Talking Point Freedom from COVID mandates won’t be free. How many deaths should we tolerate?
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The NRA's ideal world
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Is it 1938 — or 2003?
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A moment of moral clarity
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Every couch a casino
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We're all snowflakes now
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Our war with natural selection
opinion Omicron may not necessarily be the last punishing wave
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Darkness visible
opinion After this remarkably gloomy year, 2022 has to be better … doesn’t it?
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No right to privacy
opinion The Supreme Court created privacy rights, and it can take them away
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Joining the war on COVID
opinion Humanity can blunt the impact of Omicron and other variants — if we all do our part
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Bannon's radical vision
opinion The Trump whisperer is organizing a populist revolution
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Death of the ancients
opinion Even 2,000-year-old sequoias can’t survive a changed climate
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Giving notice
opinion Why Americans are quitting their jobs in droves
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Facebook's amoral algorithms
opinion Disinformation, outrage, and polarization keep the clicks coming
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Why Denmark beat COVID and the U.S. didn't
opinion In a pandemic, trust in science and government is critical
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The limits of power
opinion To avoid bruising defeats, the U.S. must recognize what it can't change
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How fiascos happen
opinion When information changes, plans must, too
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Rage is in the air
opinion At times, the pandemic has brought out the best in humanity, but it has also brought out the worst
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The 'natural' fallacy
opinion For most of human history, it was natural to die young of infectious disease
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Weapons of mass destruction
opinion When everyone has a gun, the body count soars
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