DOGE’s Fuzzy Math
The department’s current efforts—and Musk’s obsession with fraud—are not likely to make a dent in the country’s deficit.
‘Not My President’s Day’: Thousands Gather in Protest Against Trump
Images of some of yesterday’s nationwide anti-Trump rallies, ranging from Alaska and California to Massachusetts and Florida
The Dark History Behind Public Education
Schools weren’t meant to set you free, one political scientist argues.
Frozen Food’s New Wave
The freezer can now be an arsenal of taste.
My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
How Progressives Broke the Government
Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.
Dear Therapist: I Was the Other Woman
I know I sound naive, but this wasn’t like a “normal” affair.
The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit
A perfect suit, made by an expert tailor out of superlative fabric, would do nothing less than transform me.
January 6 Still Happened
The Trump administration can pardon the insurrectionists and delete pages of evidence. But it cannot hide what took place on that day.
The New, Unsettling Truth at the Heart of Yellowjackets
Its characters can never truly escape danger, in the past or present.
Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
The Coming Democratic Baby Bust
Birth rates on the left fell in the last Trump presidency. That seems likely to happen again.
A Sea Story
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place two decades ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and unofficial reports and survivor testimony, our correspondent has distilled an account of the Estonia’s last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas.
The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons
Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache, but rather a tender exploration of human intimacy.