Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10
A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative.
A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative.
I can’t stop watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Once again, he has reached into the back closet of history and dragged out one of our ugliest conceits.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has given Xi Jinping a way to stir trouble for the West and make Moscow dependent on Beijing.
The oratory was warmed-over, but the substance was right.
The irony: Online is where we most need the identity cues that idiosyncratic language used to provide.
I never asked for this role.
What worked for British tabloids won’t work for The Washington Post.
It could bring water to parched land—but scientists aren’t sure it’s worth the risk.
Federal workforce-training programs prepare people for dead-end jobs that no one wants.
Culture and entertainment musts from Kate Guarino
A poem for Sunday
For Trump and Biden, who faces greater danger onstage at the presidential debate?
Intimate studies of actors, comedians, and other cultural figures from our archives
The uproar over a publisher’s ethics is a matter of survival.
A single number can’t capture extreme heat.
Climate protests should be pro-humanity.
Meet the jam band that just might persuade you to love a jam band.
The future of large shopping centers will encompass much more than shopping.
Children will likely be the ones to first figure out the technology’s advantages and drawbacks.