Why an Early Start Is the ‘Quintessence of Life’
Not sleeping late could be the best resolution you ever keep.
Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.
If where you live isn’t truly your home, and you have the resources to make a change, it could do wonders for your happiness.
Trump Is Thinking of Buying a Giant Socialist Island
The president has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for the United States.
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 Insurrectionists Next Door
Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors.
The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over
Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
What Taylor Swift Understands About Love
Her songs tell us that it’s okay to be hungry for joy and romance.
America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old
As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.
The 13 Best TV Shows of 2024
The year’s most essential series
What Made Jimmy Carter Such a Strange President
Reassessing the infamous “malaise” speech
The Rise of the Troll
They may seem like pranksters on the margins, but what happens when the most powerful people on Earth are trolls?
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
What Will Become of American Civilization?
Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 30 Years Ago
Life is not measured by a moment. Focus on getting the big things right.
The Onion’s Most Trenchant Headline
The satirical site’s announcement that it is acquiring Alex Jones’s Infowars created confusion—and perfectly captured the media world we’re living in.
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Every day until Wednesday, December 25, this page will present a new, incredible image of our universe from one of two space telescopes.