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June 22, 2025 
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This week, Nicholas Confessore, investigative reporter for The Times and a staff writer for the magazine, published an investigation into the push by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Biden administration to take a case on gender-affirming care for minors to the Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti. The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday was a crushing blow for the trans rights movement.
For some trans activists and their allies, the case was the culmination of a powerful Trump-era backlash against trans people, artfully stoked by right-wing politicians and abetted by biased media coverage. But some civil rights experts and veterans of the L.G.B.T.Q. movement view the Skrmetti case as a tragic gamble built on flawed politics and uncertain science.
On the cover this week: our special issue on learning to live with A.I., featuring Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on everyone using A.I.; Susan Dominus on the family that created an A.I. avatar of a dying father; Bill Wasik on how A.I. will change the way history is written; Robert Capps on the jobs for humans A.I. will create; Charley Locke on the patterns A.I. can see in human behavior; Kim Tingley on therapy chatbots; and more.
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