Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
How the Best Restaurants Can Make You Feel
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out: His work is an underrated art form.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers
The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.
The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
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.
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.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
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.
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
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