Universities Deserve Special Standing
A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.
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.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
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.
The Great Cousin Decline
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.
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.
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.
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 Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
The Link Between Happiness and Social Connection
Building a meaningful life is hard for young people to do right now.
The Judiciary Pushback Against Trump’s Agenda
How courts across the country have responded to the president’s immigration agenda
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
An Unsustainable Presidency
Nothing about Donald Trump’s first 100 days has been ordinary.
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
Trump’s Lawyer Walked Into a Trap
By the end of the argument, everyone knew it.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.