A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
The Key to Critical Self-Awareness
The ancient-Greek commandment Know thyself turns out to be a great modern way to become happier, more empathetic, and more successful.
Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round?
The ex-congressman whose name became a punch line is running for New York’s city council. In some ways, he hasn’t changed a bit.
The Missing Part of Trump’s Minerals Math
Without demand from clean energy, the U.S. market for rare earth, graphite, and lithium will falter.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Trump’s El Salvador Scheme Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The Eighth Amendment case against sending deportees to CECOT
The Writer Who Understood Aloneness
Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Who Gets Panzer Tattooed on Their Arm?
The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term
Universities Deserve Special Standing
A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.
Trump’s Hollow Defense of Tariffs
His usual marketing savvy is nowhere to be seen.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
Fox and Frenemy
Trump may lash out at the network. But the two will always make up.
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in Sinners
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.