Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers
The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
The Great Cousin Decline
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
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