What You Need to Know About Making a Good Impression
We evolved to form snap judgments about who’s friend and who’s foe, but we need to be more evolved now.
Who Really Has Brain Worms?
A scientific inquiry
The Tight Line Trump Has a Judge Walking
A conversation with David A. Graham about the bizarre nature of the former president’s criminal trial
Steve Albini Was Proof You Can Change
To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry.
Watch Apple Trash-Compact Human Culture
What was the company thinking?
It’s Not a Rap Beef. It’s a Cultural Reckoning.
The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has become far, far bigger than music alone.
Photos: Deadly Flooding in Southern Brazil
Images of widespread flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
The Absurdity of Believing China’s Great at Protecting Kids Online
Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong.
The Nudes Internet
The slow sexualization of everything online
No One Knows What Universities Are For
Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.
Taxpayers Are About to Subsidize a Lot More Sports Stadiums
You would think that three decades’ worth of evidence would put an end to giving taxpayer money to wealthy sports owners. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
Listen to What They’re Chanting
A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so threatening.
Trump’s Latest Abortion Position Is More Radical Than It Sounds
Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use.
The Strange Ritual of Commencement Speeches
Where everything and nothing is at stake
When Nan Goldin Danced in Low-Life Go-Go Bars in Paterson, N.J.
Ozempic or Bust
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise.
She Was No ‘Mammy’
Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.
The Gaza Cease-Fire That Wasn’t
Four things to understand about the ongoing negotiations
The Stormy Daniels Testimony Spotlights Trump’s Misogyny
It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex.
The Great Honeybee Fallacy
For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?
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