The Funniest Part of Alison Bechdel’s Work
The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
A Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism
The person charged with attacking an American Jewish gathering and killing two Israeli-embassy aides disingenuously invoked the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.
The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted
The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.
First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.
My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?
What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About Autism
Starting with his claims of an “autism epidemic.”
A Striking Moment in American Activism
A new documentary revisits a pivotal week at Gallaudet University in 1988.
What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.