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What It Means to Be a Mystic Girl

Camp was the place these girls felt safe and free.

I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won.

My futile quest to avoid the material that my entire world is made out of

Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment.

The Courts Won’t Save Democracy From Trump

George Conway on Trump, the rule of law, and why the legal system is failing

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.

Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?

It will take a “total mobilization of our forces,” in the words of new Autocracy in America host Garry Kasparov.

Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Is the nominee for New York City mayor “African American”? Wrong question.

I See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life

I’ve never owned the device, and I’m not sure I ever want to.

What the Next Phase of Trump’s Presidency Will Look Like

The president got his “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Can he sell it to voters?

The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change

Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This

Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.

How to Be Happy Growing Older

Your future will probably be better than your past.

Let Your Kid Climb That Tree

It could actually make them safer.

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?

After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

The Bizarre Relationship of a ‘Work Wife’ and a ‘Work Husband’

The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment.

What I Learned About Life at My 30th College Reunion

“Every classmate who became a teacher or doctor seemed happy,” and 29 other lessons from seeing my Harvard class of 1988 all grown up

He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America

Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom

Fertility policy has a big missing piece.

America’s Coming Smoke Epidemic

The research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning.