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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.

An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So

Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.

Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?

Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.

Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come

The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.

Trump Heads Back to Where He Started

The president’s visit to Saudi Arabia comes almost exactly eight years after his surreal first foray abroad.

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail

Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.

Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’

Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

Canadian Ambassador: My Countrymen Are Angry and Frustrated With the U.S.

Kirsten Hillman talks Trump, trade, and the fraught future of the U.S.-Canada relationship.

How America Got Mean

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.

America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why.

The reason statins can make your muscles sore or weak was unclear—until scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer.

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.

Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise

Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are making dieting and exercise obsolete.