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.
Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations
Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.
A White House Briefing Straight From North Korea
How MAGA influencers have reshaped the press corps
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.
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 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.
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
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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.
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.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
Trump’s Hollow Defense of Tariffs
His usual marketing savvy is nowhere to be seen.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
Fox and Frenemy
Trump may lash out at the network. But the two will always make up.