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.
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.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.
Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So
Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
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.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
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.
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
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.
Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified
Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., is a real prosecutor. She’s also a real MAGA partisan.
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
Israel Plunges Into Darkness
What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.
The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo
Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again.
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
J. D. Vance’s Very Weird Views About Women
Most people who feel as he does are polite enough to keep it to themselves.
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