Britain’s Smoking War Lights Up
The U.K. enjoys a bipartisan consensus on phasing out tobacco use. But some see it as a new front in a culture war against the nanny state.
The U.K. enjoys a bipartisan consensus on phasing out tobacco use. But some see it as a new front in a culture war against the nanny state.
Don’t be confused by Trump and Vance’s word games.
Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality.
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side.
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
Why promises like former President Jimmy Carter’s, to stay alive to vote one last time, have such appeal
The mass-rape trial in France exposes a case that’s both wholly unprecedented and dully familiar.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Joker sequel has nothing interesting to say about the challenge of fame.
Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East
The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
Around the anniversary of October 7, a conversation about Israel, pain, and peace with the author of Sapiens
New data on the end times
The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
So is meditation. And push-ups. And breathing.
The 2015 Paris Agreement was a landmark, but countries need to raise their ambition again to complete the transition away from fossil fuels.
Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.
The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.
Ever feel like your life is determined by powerful forces beyond your reach? HBO has a show for that.