What Kind of Questions Did 17th-Century Daters Have?
Advice columns have always appealed to people’s perennial confusion about love and marriage.
Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’
Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
Putin’s Bread and Circus Had Bread
If there’s one cue Trump missed from the Russian dictator, it’s never to mess with economic stability.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
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