Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Never Coming Back. Then He Did.
His return doesn’t mean he can go free. But it does mean the administration has changed course.
When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways
The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.
An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.
A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’
What if overcoming trauma can be painless?
Wes Anderson Lets the Real World Filter In
The Phoenician Scheme is the director’s latest film to let modern life seep into his high-concept worlds.
Why Wittgenstein Was Right About Silence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one may find life’s deeper meanings.
Inside the Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning
“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”
What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
A High IQ Makes You an Outsider, Not a Genius
Acing an intelligence test only counts for so much.
As America Steps Back, Others Step In
Our global leadership is at stake, and it’s not too late to act.
First Wave at Omaha Beach
An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs
Nobody wins in the Trump-Musk breakup.
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
America the Fortress
Trump is using travel bans to keep some people out—and additional means to make sure others don’t want to even visit.
The Quick Therapy That Actually Works
Just a few hours of therapy-like interventions can reduce some people’s anxiety.
MAHA Has a Pizza Problem
Functionally banning school pizza is a tough sell.
‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’
Sports betting seems to be spurring a rise in gambling addiction—one that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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