What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?
New research upends conventional wisdom on what actually drives economic growth.
New research upends conventional wisdom on what actually drives economic growth.
American society is largely built around the assumption that one parent will stay home. So why is there so little material support for homemakers?
Images of Florida residents preparing themselves for Hurricane Milton—their second hurricane in less than two weeks
The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.
The former president says that there are “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
In certain overachieving circles, breast-feeding is no longer a choice—it’s a no-exceptions requirement, the ultimate badge of responsible parenting. Yet the actual health benefits of breast-feeding are surprisingly thin, far thinner than most popular literature indicates. Is breast-feeding right for every family? Or is it this generation’s vacuum cleaner—an instrument of misery that mostly just keeps women down?
At a glance, America’s shortage of adoptable babies may seem like a problem. But is adoption meant to provide babies for families, or families for babies?
Economists aren’t telling the whole truth about tariffs.
Developments in Tibet and elsewhere along the Chinese border have forced the Indian government to take a fresh look at its policy toward China. G. L. JAIN, who is the author of a new book on Nepal, is chief reporter in Delhi for the TIMES OF INDIA.
How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
A once-ubiquitous feature of floor plans is becoming a rarity.
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?
The Joker sequel has nothing interesting to say about the challenges of fame.
Part 10 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II
The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
Law and medicine still rely on the device. Maybe they shouldn’t. An Object Lesson.