Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times
Some people miss the early, eerie first few months of the pandemic, when time seemed to have stopped.
The Last Days of American Orange Juice
Savor every last drop.
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
The Dark History Behind Public Education
Schools weren’t meant to set you free, one political scientist argues.
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.
Frozen Food’s New Wave
The freezer can now be an arsenal of taste.
‘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
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
Trump Could Start a New Pipeline Fight
A tax credit for carbon capture has fans in the oil industry.
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
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.
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
The New Globalism
How MAGA is reimagining foreign policy
Saturday Night Live Played the Wrong Greatest-Hits Reel
The sketch show’s much-hyped anniversary prime-time special suffered from a case of recency bias.
The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
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 Progressives Broke the Government
Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.