The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.
What Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is Really About
Revenge on the military is just the start of it.
Best of How To: Spend Time on What You Value
How to make the most of your downtime
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Fairy Tale We’ve Been Retelling for 125 Years
Every generation has an Oz story, but one retelling best captures what makes L. Frank Baum’s world sing.
Gladiator II Is More Than Just a Spectacle
Ridley Scott’s ancient-Roman epic manages to find some beauty amid the savagery.
How I Demolished My Life
A home-improvement story
Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?
And can deciding to have kids even be a rational exercise in the first place?
Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker
You don’t have to become a Buddhist monk to realize the value of contemplating hard questions without clear answers.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Trump-Trumpist Divide
The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.
Winners of the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024
Some of the winning and honored photographs from this year’s competition
You’re Showering Too Much
Wash your hands, but lay off the other parts.
Trump’s Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal
Economists aren’t telling the whole truth about tariffs.
How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good name?
I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.
Another Theory of the Trump Movement
Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain?
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.
The People Who Quit Dating
Being single can be hard—but the search for love may be harder.
What the Men of the Internet Are Trying to Prove
Jake Paul is an emblem of a generation starving for purpose while gorging on spectacle.