Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
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