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Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage

Fewer young people are getting into relationships.

Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?

Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.

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.

The Warehouse Worker Who Became a Philosopher

Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind

A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.

Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round?

The ex-congressman whose name became a punch line is running for New York’s city council. In some ways, he hasn’t changed a bit.

The Great Cousin Decline

Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.

We’re Back to the Actually Internet

Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.

Who Gets Panzer Tattooed on Their Arm?

The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

This Is the Way a World Order Ends

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

A Trip Into Alaska’s Copper River Valley in 1902

At the end of the 19th century, an estimated 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush, seeking their fortunes in the interior of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory. Many gold seekers who chose the arduous path inland from Alaska’s port of Valdez also discovered rich copper deposits along the way. The U.S. Army soon started work on the Valdez Trail, which would become the main route between the mining fields and Valdez. Several competing businesses rushed to build a railroad along the route. In 1902, one of those groups sent a team of photographers, the Miles Brothers, to document the town, the growing trail, the landscape, its newly arrived residents, and Alaska Natives. Prints of these photographs were collected into an album I was able to digitize recently at the U.S. National Archives, giving us a remarkable glimpse into daily life along a rough trail into the Alaskan interior, nearly 125 years ago.

The Destruction of the Department of Justice

When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.

The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety

The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”