The Choices That Create Isolation
Everyday decisions accumulate into a life.
The Agony of Texting With Men
Many guys are bad at messaging their friends back—and it might be making them more lonely.
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
Americans Need to Party More
We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need.
You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.
If you can accept your mortality, you will feel more alive.
Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.
A Palestinian American Sex and the City
Betty Shamieh’s debut novel is a rebellious rom-com.
Parents Are Gaming Their Kids’ Credit Scores
Because of course they are.
Watch—And Rewatch—This 215-Minute Film
The Brutalist’s ambitious gamble with the audience mostly pays off.
Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life
The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.
Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook
The social network has given up on verifying facts. That’s a good thing.
Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Over
But will he bother to build something new?
Altadena After the Fire
The pain of one of the last middle-class towns in Los Angeles
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Intellectual Rationalization for Annexing Greenland
Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem.
The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
The Great Crypto Crash
Trump will usher in a speculative frenzy.
Trump’s Sentencing Made No One Happy
But it still mattered for the rule of law.