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Oh, How the Men Drone On

My male friends love to talk at me—but not with me.

The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia

And many people with the condition are cared for at home.

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler

They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

America’s Pro-Disease Movement

How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis

Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round?

The ex-congressman whose name became a punch line is running for New York’s city council. In some ways, he hasn’t changed a bit.

Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids

Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.

Who Gets Panzer Tattooed on Their Arm?

The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term

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.

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Why Your Vet Bill Is So High

Corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices.

Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

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.

What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

Universities Deserve Special Standing

A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.

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.

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

What Porn Did to American Culture

Sophie Gilbert discusses how the industry defined womanhood, sex, and power.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail

The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.