Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
In his latest novel, the extreme realist dips into fantasy—and taps into the human hunger for meaning.
The writer’s insistence on ignoring the web is an even bigger blind spot today than it was when The Tipping Point came out.
The director’s fantasy of film’s technological potential is still far from a reality.
It’s a price some people are willing to pay.
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.
Romney has good reason to fear Trump’s vengeance.
Eliminating degree requirements for jobs is very popular with voters but would do almost nothing to help workers who don’t have a college diploma.
The government’s case is serious. The details are absurd.
For most, the big decision is about whether to vote at all.
Sabrina Carpenter tackles the exasperation of being young, female, straight, and single in 2024.
As weed has become easier to obtain, it has become harder to smoke.
On questions of war and peace, governments must hear from many types of experts.
What the Internet is doing to our brains
The conflicts proliferating around the world are all part of a single challenge for the United States.
Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.
In his new book, The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates sacrifices necessary complexity.
Like the man who leads it, the GOP is not just incidentally grotesque. It is grotesque at its core.
“I am tempted to think that the perplexed businessman might discover a possible solution of his troubles if he would just spend a few days in his wife’s kitchen.”
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.