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Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come

The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

Winners of the 2022 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

Some of this year’s winners and honorees, showing remarkable scenes from oceans, lakes, and rivers around the world

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail

Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.

Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

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

The Bliss of a Quieter Ego

We live in a world of noisy narcissism, but you can escape the cacophony—and be happier.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

‘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.

History Will Judge the Complicit

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

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?

An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.

Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time

The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.

Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified

Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., is a real prosecutor. She’s also a real MAGA partisan.

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.