Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
Trump Hands the World to China
Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American power.
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.
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
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
A Sea Story
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place two decades ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and unofficial reports and survivor testimony, our correspondent has distilled an account of the Estonia’s last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas.
You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention
Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.
When Robert Frost Was Bad
Before he became America’s most famous poet, he wrote some real howlers.
Confessions of a Republican Exile
A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
The New Authoritarianism
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump
Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.