The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials
NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly.
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
The Free-Speech Phonies
Donald Trump and Elon Musk never believed in anyone’s free speech except their own.
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App
Imagine if digital matchmakers had no financial incentives.
Americans Are Stuck. Who’s to Blame?
Yoni Appelbaum on his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
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.
The Case Against Perfection
What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering
The Moron Factory
A short story
Intimidating Americans Will Not Work
Trump is punishing Americans who don’t say the words he likes best. That’s not how it works in America.
January 6 Still Happened
The Trump administration can pardon the insurrectionists and delete pages of evidence. But it cannot hide what took place on that day.
The New Globalism
How MAGA is reimagining foreign policy
The Dark History Behind Public Education
Schools weren’t meant to set you free, one political scientist argues.
Trump Will Abandon NATO
If reelected, he would end our commitment to the European alliance, reshaping the international order and hobbling American influence in the world.
What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like
The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very far from reality.
Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?
In an interview with Sean Hannity, three men demonstrated that they have no idea how American democracy works.
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
How Negativity Can Kill a Relationship
Successful marriages are defined not by improvement, but by avoiding decline.
Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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