The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
‘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 Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
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 Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
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.
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.
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.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
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