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Retirement Is the New Resistance

The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy

Who Counts as Christian?

A new initiative will necessitate that the Trump administration makes difficult judgment calls about the faith.

AI Is Not Your Friend

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

An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax

What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.

The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert

Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

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.

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

A raunchy sketch ends up reinforcing the stereotype of mothers as frumpy and sexless.

The Partisan Mind Virus

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

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