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The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

The Oddball British Comedy Show I Thought I’d Hate (And Learned to Love)

The cult favorite Taskmaster has a nonsensical premise that slowly bowled me over.

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

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

Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading

Hint: It’s not just the screens.

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

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.

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.

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.