Dear Therapist: I Don’t Want to Take Care of My Aging, Homophobic Parents
What do I owe them if they caused me pain growing up?
The Rick Rubin Guide to Creativity
Can the legendary record producer’s book really make you into an artist?
Beijing Is Ruining TikTok
Unfortunately for ByteDance, there’s nothing it can do about the rule of law in China.
Most of This Island Disappeared in Just a Decade
There were once 500 homes on Nyangai Island. Now, as sea levels rise, there are fewer than 100.
The Joys of Chronic Rewatching
Culture and entertainment musts from Stephanie Bai
Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents
A poem for Sunday
Conspiracy Theories About the Moscow Attack Are Unnecessary
The fault lines in Russian society have foretold yesterday’s atrocity for literally centuries.
Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?
“If you flash back to the rupture during the Obama administration, Joe Biden was always the person who stepped in and tried to find a way to make it better.”
The Inner World of the Teen
Their stage of life defies clear categorization.
The Real Issue With Netflix’s 3 Body Problem
In adapting a sweeping and cerebral trilogy for TV, the new show forgets one of the original story’s biggest themes.
Why Trump Won’t Stop Suing the Media and Losing
His lawsuits against the press are expensive and futile—and a lot more rational than they appear.
America’s Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting
Rising temperatures could push millions of people north.
The Angst Behind China’s ‘Lying Flat’ Youth
For young people, the dissent that briefly kindled protests against pandemic lockdowns has settled into a malaise of vague discontent.
We’re All Just Fodder
What Kate Middleton proved about the internet
How America Stopped Trusting the Experts
A conversation with Tom Nichols about American narcissism, the pandemic, and declining trust
I Hope You All Feel Terrible Now
How the internet—and Stephen Colbert—hounded Kate Middleton into revealing her diagnosis
The Wrong Way to Study AI in College
Computer-science students are being shielded from the liberal arts. That may be a problem.
It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem
There’s a better approach to keeping users safe.
Reading as a Sensory Experience
In this novel, the act of seeing is an art in itself.
The Shohei Ohtani Betting Scandal Won’t Be the Last
If the world’s most famous baseball player can be implicated in allegations of illegal gambling, what else is happening in the shadows?