Trump’s Tactical Burger Unit Is Beyond Parody
Happy Meal Team Six
No One Knows How to ‘Save’ Hollywood
Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.
How to Take Charge of Your Family Inheritance
You may be fine with becoming more like your parents or hate the idea. Either way, it’s something you can control.
The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
Return of the Shaman
How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics
The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy
What the president’s visit to the Middle East reveals about America’s shifting global role
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
And the Oscar Goes to … Something the Voters Didn’t Watch
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet
Some of the president’s biggest allies are panning his plan to accept the luxury aircraft.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship