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Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

Here’s how to make the most of it.

Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup

The president tried to give his billionaire benefactor a dignified exit. It didn’t work.

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

Trump Is Wearing America Down

Less than a decade ago, the Trump administration's travel ban sparked an outcry. Today, people seem far more willing to accept such a policy.

Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy.

The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.

Every Election Is Now Existential

A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

A High IQ Makes You an Outsider, Not a Genius

Acing an intelligence test only counts for so much.

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.

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.

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.

Why Wittgenstein Was Right About Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one may find life’s deeper meanings.

A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’

What if overcoming trauma can be painless?

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.

The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong

Cosmologists are fighting over everything.

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear

The world’s richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting.

Inside the Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning

“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”

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.