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AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
Retirement Is the New Resistance
The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy
Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
Food safety in America is under attack.
Trump Sides With the Israeli People Against Netanyahu
Most Israelis want to end the war, but their prime minister does not.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
Who Counts as Christian?
A new initiative will necessitate that the Trump administration makes difficult judgment calls about the faith.
Germany Can’t Ban Its Way to Democracy
The German far-right political party, AfD, is both too big to ban and too big not to.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
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.
The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert
Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad
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.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
J. D. Vance’s Very Weird Views About Women
Most people who feel as he does are polite enough to keep it to themselves.
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift