Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
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.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
An Unsustainable Presidency
Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in Sinners
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election
Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.
The Trump Voters Who Like What They See
“Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something.”
Dear James: I Miss Being on Dating Apps
I’ve hit the relationship jackpot. But now I have romance FOMO.
Why Is Trump So Into Crypto?
The president’s enthusiasm for digital currency could destabilize America’s financial systems.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit
Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
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.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
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