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We’re Back to the Actually Internet

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

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids

Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.

We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong

What illness taught me about true friendship

I Should Have Seen This Coming

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.

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.

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.

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.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

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

What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

The Great Language Flattening

Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time

The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.

RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer

Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.