Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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.
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
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.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
How to Define Old Age
Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Most Infamous Narcissist in Literary History Gets a Smartphone
A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
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