The Hollywood Dual Strike Isn’t Just About the Writers and Actors
Many of Hollywood’s workers are watching the dual strike from the outside, and wondering how to make labor function for them.
Russell Brand Wasn’t an Anomaly
The former TV host and actor was a mascot, at best, for a media culture that routinely dehumanized and hypersexualized young women.
Trump’s Menacing Rosh Hashanah Message to American Jews
The former president’s anti-Jewish remarks follow an old pattern.
The End of Scantron Tests
Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.
America’s New Battlefront
Republicans in North Carolina and Wisconsin are injecting ugly politics into their state’s courts.
It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine
So why doesn’t it feel that way?
Tolstoy Was Wrong About Happy Families
In Loved and Missed, Susie Boyt presents the story of a woman raising a child, and the surprising reality of just how pleasurable it all is.
Gay Talese: I Wanted to Write About Nobodies
Growing up in a small town on the Jersey Shore in the late 1940s, I dreamed of someday working for a great newspaper. But I did not necessarily want to write news.
Nixon Between the Lines
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
‘Baseball, the Eternal Game, Shouldn’t Be Shortened’
Readers respond to our July/August 2023 cover story and more.
Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency
Serious times require serious citizens.
Oktoberfest 2023: Scenes From the Opening Weekend
Early images from the 188th Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
Parent Diplomacy Is Overwhelming Teachers
And it’s only getting worse.
COVID Drugs Are a Miracle Cure for Cats
Leftover medications are going to save the animals from a deadly feline coronavirus.
Airbnb Really Is Different Now
At this point, the company hardly seems part of the gig economy at all.
The ‘Whiteboy Brooklyn Novelist’ Grows Up
Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel presents a story of gentrification without sentimentality.
An Intellectual and a Moral Failure
Richard Hanania’s new book is a Trojan horse for white supremacy.
What to Do When Your Political Party Loses Its Mind
I was a Conservative until Boris Johnson expelled me. It was a painful experience, but here’s what I’ve learned.
The Agony of the School Car Line
It’s crazy-making and deeply inefficient.
What I Most Regret About My Decades of Legal Activism
By focusing on civil liberties but ignoring economic issues, liberals like me got defeated on both.