Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
Why Study History?
Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democracy is a way of living, not a settled destination.
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage
Fewer young people are getting into relationships.
America Is the Land of Opportunity—For White South Africans
Trump has frozen refugee admissions and cut off resettlement funding, but he has made an exception for white South Africans, who he says are victims of racial discrimination.
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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