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The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

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

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.

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

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

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

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 Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

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?

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

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

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

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

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

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

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.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

The Great Language Flattening

Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

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.

The Partisan Mind Virus

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler

Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.