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An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

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

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert

Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad

How to Age Up on a Warming Planet

Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.

A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship

Would you raise kids with your best pals?

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

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

‘I Run the Country and the World’

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

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

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

Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

How America Got Mean

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

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

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades

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

SNL Isn’t Really Hot for Your Mom

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

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.

The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

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.