The Missing Part of Trump’s Minerals Math
Without demand from clean energy, the U.S. market for rare earth, graphite, and lithium will falter.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
Universities Deserve Special Standing
A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
The Key to Critical Self-Awareness
The ancient-Greek commandment Know thyself turns out to be a great modern way to become happier, more empathetic, and more successful.
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.
The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
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.
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in Sinners
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
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