The Ultimate Career Advice: Make Your Work Your Calling
Three ways to find purpose and meaning in a job
The Three Marine Brothers Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by America
What does America owe its Latino soldiers?
How Squid Game Lost Itself
The hit drama’s final season is a reminder of what the show did so well, in the wrong ways.
Why Do Billionaires Go Crazy?
Tina Brown on how extreme wealth warps minds. Plus: hopes and fears after Trump’s strike against Iran’s nuclear program.
Thank God for The Bear
Season 4 of the FX show is exactly what it—and we—needed.
Too Many People Own Dogs
If you love dogs, maybe don’t get one.
Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom?
Some go to great lengths to give kids their own room. But children can thrive without their own space.
The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
Why Are People Weird About Only Children?
“Onlies” don’t seem to be any worse off than kids with siblings. So why do stereotypes about them persist?
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
Extreme Violence Without Genocide
The plight of white South Africans is part of a much larger problem.
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.
Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Denounce a Dangerous Slogan?
The New York mayoral candidate’s defense of “Globalize the intifada” is very telling.
The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise
The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas from each.
The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest
When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship.
A Stunning Reinvention of the Zombie Film
28 Days Later messed with the genre’s formula. 28 Years Later takes it even further.
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Atomic War or Peace
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.