‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
The Comic Who’s His Own Worst Enemy
The Rehearsal takes the prankster’s quest for self-betterment to new extremes.
The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety
The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
How to Define Old Age
Why would the World Health Organization want to call “old age” a disease?
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
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