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What Trump Is Getting From Eric Adams

The mayor bent the knee, and his reward has arrived.

The Great Political Sort Is Happening at the Office

Social workers are Democrats. Real-estate brokers are Republicans. What does your job say about your politics?

The False AI Energy Crisis

Donald Trump and AI executives alike have sounded the alarm about a looming AI-driven energy shortage. Both benefit from the concern.

The Anti-Social Century

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

The World’s Most Powerful Unelected Bureaucrat

Donald Trump said he’d return decision making to democratically elected officials. Instead, he’s handed it over to the world’s richest man.

Europe’s Elon Musk Problem

He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.

Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids

Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.

The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them

You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite.

Confessions of a Republican Exile

A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.

The Outsider Who Captured American Loneliness

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

How America Got Mean

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

You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention

Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

Capitulation Is Contagious

When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

What Is Hims Actually Selling?

The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message: grievance.

Seventy Miles in Hell

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.

Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign

“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”