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The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why.

The reason statins can make your muscles sore or weak was unclear—until scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer.

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

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

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

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.

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

AI Is Not Your Friend

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

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.

The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come

The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.

Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.