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The Dark Ages Are Back

Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.

This Is the Way a World Order Ends

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

Schrödinger’s Detainees

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of prisoners in El Salvador who have been denied their day in court.

Six Books You'll Want to Read Outdoors

Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.

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.

Well, That’s One Way to Address America’s Vaping Problem

Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China. Because of tariffs, they’re about to get a lot more expensive.

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind

A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.

The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

And many people with the condition are cared for at home.

The Great Language Flattening

Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

The New Divide in American Marriage

College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

An Unsustainable Presidency

Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.

The End of Chicken-Breast Dominance

The price of boneless chicken thighs is finally catching up with the price of white meat.

Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025

A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

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.

Who’s Afraid of Gen Z’s Squeaky-Clean, Backflipping Bro?

Benson Boone has charmed his way to the top—and that really seems to bother some people.