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.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
Dear James: When My Husband Speaks, My Brain Turns to Mush
Is this a normal marriage thing?
The Collapse of Feminism
Spice Girls slogans and reality-TV aesthetics: A new book traces how feminism morphed into clickable objectification.
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
The Missing Branch
In an era of intense constitutional combat, Congress is nowhere to be found.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany
Part 17 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II
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.
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
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.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
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