The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
The Myth of the Poverty Trap
We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it?
The Mad Dual-Hatter
Trump’s reliance on the same group of officials to fill multiple jobs is dangerous.
Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight
To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.
The Default-Parent Problem
Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?
What Should You Let Your Kids Read?
Giving them some independence can help rekindle their love of books.
The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Just Let Your Kids Play With Makeup
Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.
The Mess at Airports Is Part of a Larger Pattern
What’s behind the Newark-airport fiasco
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
Trump and the Crown Prince
He’s the American president Gulf leaders have been waiting for.
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
The Trump administration talks tough on crime but shrugs off the work of real law enforcement.
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
And the Oscar Goes to … Something the Voters Didn’t Watch
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
/media/img/mt/2025/05/makeupforkids_v01Smaller/original.gif)