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I Love Candy. But Does It Make Me Happy?

The question of whether sugar is simply a treat or actually a nasty trick goes way beyond Halloween.

The Murky Logic of Companies’ Israel-Hamas Statements

In recent weeks, public statements about the war have emerged from corporations of all kinds. Predictably, they have not all gone over well.

Hurricane Otis Was Too Fast for the Forecasters

The storm intensified to Category 5 just before it reached Acapulco.

America Is Lucky That Biden’s in Charge

Everyone is looking to Washington for leadership in the Middle East.

What Israel Can Learn From America’s 9/11 Response

“I hope Israel looks hard at what the U.S. does when provoked and does better,” one reader argues.

Americans Don’t Get to Have the Best New COVID Drug

A Japanese antiviral appears to shorten symptoms and protect against chronic disease. Also, it doesn’t taste like soapy grapefruit.

Destruction in Gaza

Images from Gaza taken over the past five days, where Palestinians are working with few resources to tend to those displaced, rescue those trapped, help the injured, and bury their dead.

The House Republicans’ Troubling New Litmus Test

Only election deniers need apply for speaker.

A Speaker Without Enemies—For Now

Mike Johnson’s win was as sudden as it was improbable.

Can Germany Resist the Trump Disease?

A new far-left party now joins an older far right in threatening an enfeebled centrist consensus.

The Junk Is Winning

TikTok’s experiment in shopping has quickly become another place to hawk products.

What If There’s a Secret Benefit to Getting Asian Glow?

A genetic mutation carried by about 500 million people makes drinking dramatic, but may protect against infectious diseases.

Pain Hustlers Is a Goofy Celebration of Greed

The film turns the opioid crisis into a scammer story, not a criminal one.

‘You Started a War, You’ll Get a Nakba’

Since the Hamas attack, settler violence against Palestinians has intensified in the West Bank.

A Book That Changed How I Think

Our writers and editors share one title that granted them a fresh perspective.

Why This Time Is Different for Menendez

The New Jersey senator has retained his colleagues’ loyalty through past scandals. But now many fellow Democrats have had enough—and voters might turn on him too.

‘If I Knew Then What I Know Now’

Jenna Ellis becomes the latest Trump functionary to learn that his emphasis on loyalty only flows one way.

The Future of AI Is GOMA

Four companies are taking over everything.

AI Has a Hotness Problem

In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak.

Shawn Fain’s Old-Time Religion

The president of the United Auto Workers is part of a tradition that was once far more visible in American public life: the Christian left.