Chinese Students Feel a Familiar Chill in America
Surveillance, censorship, detention were things to worry about back home. Now they’re here.
The Great Cousin Decline
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill
“Beautiful” it is not.
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse
Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule.
Canada’s Terrible New Freedom
This Canada Day, Trump is fueling a very different kind of nationalism.
Extreme Violence Without Genocide
The plight of white South Africans is part of a much larger problem.
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
Photos: Europe Swelters Under a Heat Dome
Residents and tourists across Europe have been enduring days of oppressive heat, doing whatever they can to keep cool. On Monday, one region in Portugal reached a record-setting temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius.
‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy
The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.
What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff
Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.
The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine
How the left ended up disbelieving the science