Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit
Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in Sinners
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
Six Books You’ll Want to Read Outdoors
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.
Marvel Doesn’t Have to Try So Hard
The new film Thunderbolts* understands that bigger does not mean better.
Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming for Your Chili Crisp
What will happen to the Chinese grocery store?
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.
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.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
Photos of the Week: May Day, Fire Festival, Finger Wrestling
A sandstorm in northeastern Syria, the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, members of ZZ Top in Australia, and much more
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election
Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
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
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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.
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