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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.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

How America Got Mean

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

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

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

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

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

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.

The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

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 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.