Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.
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.
In Praise of Heroic Masculinity
Teach boys that strength can be a virtue.
Read These Six Books—Just Trust Us
Each title richly rewards readers who come in with little prior knowledge.
You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.
If you can accept your mortality, you will feel more alive.
Doomed to Be a Tradwife
Can a marriage ever truly be equal?
Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.
The Intellectual Rationalization for Annexing Greenland
Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem.
Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life
The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.
A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Science. It’s Getting Closer.
Large language models may unlock a new and valuable type of research.
The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
Trump’s Lawyer Walked Into a Trap
By the end of the argument, everyone knew it.
The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom
Notes from an “actualist” on what liberation requires
The Agony of Texting With Men
Many guys are bad at messaging their friends back—and it might be making them more lonely.
Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Over
But will he bother to build something new?
The Invisibility of Older Women
As they age, women experience less public scrutiny—and entertain a wider set of choices about when and how they are seen.
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.
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun.
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