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.
Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
Food safety in America is under attack.
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.
‘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.
Against Sunscreen Absolutism
Moderate sun exposure can be good for you. Why won’t American experts acknowledge that?
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.
The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert
Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The Golden Age of the Fried-Chicken Sandwich
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
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.
Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Hint: It’s not just the screens.
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.