How to Be Your Best Despite the Passing Years
There is no age or time of life that isn’t still an opportunity for personal progress.
Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
Something’s Fishy About the ‘Migrant Crisis’
The federal government’s dysfunction leaves immigrant-friendly cities feeling overwhelmed.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
How to Define Old Age
Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The Political Fight of the Century
For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.
The Most Infamous Narcissist in Literary History Gets a Smartphone
A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election
Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
Congress Is Preparing to Hit Universities Where It Hurts
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
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 SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety
The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
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