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AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

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.

The Bored Sex

Women, more than men, tend to feel stultified by long-term exclusivity—despite having been taught that they were designed for it.

The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain

Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

Just Let Your Kids Play With Makeup

Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them

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.

ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal?

Three possible arguments against the tech company

The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Efficacy of Prayer

“The very question ‘Does prayer work?’ puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset.”

The Debate That Will Determine How Democrats Govern Next Time

Did the party lose in 2024 despite Joe Biden’s economic approach, or because of it?

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

A Different Way to Think About Medicine’s Most Stubborn Enigma

A new book shows that dementia isn’t just a loss, and memory is much more than recollection.