Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
Trump’s Kennedy Center Debut: Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks
The president will attend a fundraiser and a showing of Les Misérables at an institution he hopes to remake in his image.
What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy
How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets
Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
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.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
The Catharsis in Re-Creating One of the Worst Days of Your Life
Making the film Warfare was an exercise in exposure therapy for the veterans whose memories it reconstructs.
Breakfast Is Breaking
The classic American version hasn’t changed much in a century. Now it faces an identity crisis.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Nine Underrated Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Hollywood’s awards shows will overlook these films—but you shouldn’t.
The Tariff Man Is Coming for America’s Entrepreneurs
One small business has paid nearly $30,000 in the past two months.
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
The Neglected Consequences of Foot-Binding
Just how much is society willing to damage women in order to control them?
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
The Children of the Nazis’ Genetic Project
Across Europe, some adoptees have had to face a dark realization about their origins.
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