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The Reality Show That Captures Gen Z Dating

This season of Love Island USA is a romance competition with very little romance.

Dear Therapist: My Daughter Doesn’t Care That I Want Her to Live Closer to Home

I don’t think she truly understands the impact that seeing her only once or twice a year is having on us.

My Family’s Slave

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

An Inhospitable Land

When the earth drinks in the last of the floodwaters, the places that remain will be different than they were before—turned sacred by overwhelming loss.

Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out

After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment.

Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom

Fertility policy has a big missing piece.

‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy

The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.

‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’

The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

Photos of the Week: Sea Bull, Rainbow Fortress, Sand Shogun

Cleanup and recovery efforts in central Texas, the Running of the Bulls in Spain, Fourth of July fireworks in New York City, swimming in the newly opened Seine River, and much more

Sinwar’s March of Folly

Seldom has any action backfired so spectacularly as Hamas’s October 7 attack.