Scientific American Didn’t Need to Endorse Anybody
The magazine’s endorsement of a candidate undermines trust in expertise.
The magazine’s endorsement of a candidate undermines trust in expertise.
Winners and runners-up from this year’s landscape-photography competition
In its gray digital face, I’ve found a little piece of my past.
The legacy of American presidential assassinations
Being single can be hard—but the search for love may be harder.
If we’re willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone’s pet.
A spectacular attack on Hezbollah is the latest development in the ongoing war between Iranian proxies and the Jewish state.
Thirty-four felony convictions. Charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles.
You’re bound to come across the “Dark Triad” type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite.
Other people can be baffling; these titles attempt to unravel a bit of their mystery.
New research shows their promise—and limits.
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
Older parents are always telling parents of young children to cherish every second; it will be gone in a flash. But it’s very difficult advice to follow in the thick of it.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
As I ran the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic, I learned that something deep within our culture is wrong.
How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam
Two years afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the cause—a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians must already know: the crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional act
Some of us strive for a virtuous life. Others strive for a pleasant one. We could all use a better balance.