Dobbs’s Confounding Effect on Abortion Rates
More than a dozen states have banned abortion. Why are rates still going up nationally?
India’s Hindu Extremists Are Trolling the Israel Conflict
The surprising source of the fake videos clogging up social-media feeds
Will Republicans Pay a Price for Extremism?
Trump is becoming more aggressive on immigration than ever before.
We’ve Never Seen Anything Like the Menendez Indictment
The case against the New Jersey senator has the potential to reshape how America deals with foreign agents.
Biden Says Goodbye to Tweezer Economics
Forty years of plucking out regulations didn’t deliver the growth that was promised. So the administration is trying something very different.
The Hero Gen Z Needs
Snoopy can’t help but feel overwhelmed in a tumultuous world. Sound familiar?
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.