The Scientist vs. the Machine
What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?
What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?
The musical biopic Better Man is so much more than its curious gimmick.
Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.
Should I reach out to her?
Readers respond to our December 2024 cover story and more.
The events of 2024 shifted the balance of power in the Middle East—and inside Iran.
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.
It’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle.
The new language of the internet is both mind-numbing and irresistible.
The false promise of seasonal-color analysis
India is now a testing ground for whether demagoguery or deteriorating living conditions exert a greater sway on voters.
Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
In her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh isn’t trying to educate or enlighten.
After long denying the possibility, some intelligence agencies are no longer willing to rule out a mystery weapon.
Many guys are bad at messaging their friends back—and it might be making them more lonely.
Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.