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The Best Hope for Electric Cars Could Be the GOP Distri...

The vehicles are being adopted fastest in blue-leaning major metropolitan areas.

The Anti-Bibi Protester Who Became Israel’s Spokesperso...

Eylon Levy’s chaotic rise and sudden fall

Many Indians Don’t Trust Their Elections Anymore

Modi rose from a level playing field that no longer exists.

Miranda July’s Weird Road Trip

The author’s midlife-crisis novel is full of estrangement, eroticism, and whimsy.

Against Sunscreen Absolutism

Moderate sun exposure can be good for you. Why won’t American experts acknowledge that?

Photos of the Week: Grim Reaper, Wicker Man, Met Gala

The ruins of a mountain monastery in Turkey, tornado damage in Oklahoma, camel rides in a Chinese desert, fireflies on a forest tr...

The Problem With America’s Protest Feedback Loop

Mass demonstrations are becoming more frequent but less effective.

Did Something Happen to Our Necks?

You just don’t see foam collars anymore.

The Book You’re Reading Might Be Wrong

Most nonfiction isn’t fact-checked. The Kristi Noem saga could change that—but it probably won’t.

The End of the ‘Photoshop Fail’

Adobe’s app was once synonymous with fake images online. Then came generative AI.

You Just Don’t See the Foam Neck Brace Anymore

Did it ever really work?

The Limits of Utopia

Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern building.

The Biggest Way That Elections Have Consequences

Presidents have surprisingly little influence over the economy—except in a single, vital respect: their agencies that issue regula...

Trump Flaunts His Corruption

The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous.

What Happened When I Cloned My Own Voice

The promises and perils of AI voice software

What You Need to Know About Making a Good Impression

We evolved to form snap judgments about who’s friend and who’s foe, but we need to be more evolved now.

Steve Albini Was Proof You Can Change

To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry.

The Tight Line Trump Has a Judge Walking

A conversation with David A. Graham about the bizarre nature of the former president’s criminal trial

Who Really Has Brain Worms?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might have suffered from a brain parasite. It almost certainly wasn’t munching on his gray matter.

Watch Apple Trash-Compact Human Culture

What was the company thinking?

The Many Lessons of Steve Albini

To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry.

It’s Not a Rap Beef. It’s a Cultural Reckoning.

The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has become far, far bigger than music alone.

The Brutal Catharsis of Drake vs. Kendrick

This is no mere beef but a public humiliation ritual—and a referendum on the purpose of rap itself.

The Absurdity of Believing China’s Great at Protecting ...

Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong.

Photos: Deadly Flooding in Southern Brazil

Images of widespread flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

The Great Honeybee Fallacy

For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?

She Was No ‘Mammy’

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

No One Knows What Universities Are For

Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.

Why Would America Ever Want to Emulate China’s Internet...

Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong.

She Was No 'Mammy'

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

How the Modern University Became a Bureaucratic Blob

Universities are experiencing goal ambiguity at a time when certainty is most necessary.

The Nudes Internet

The online subculture where everything is about sex.

Listen to What They’re Chanting

A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause ...

Taxpayers Are About to Subsidize a Lot More Sports Stad...

You would think that three decades’ worth of evidence would put an end to giving taxpayer money to wealthy sports owners. Unfortun...

The Strange Ritual of Commencement Speeches

Where everything and nothing is at stake

Trump’s Latest Abortion Position Is More Radical Than I...

Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use.

Our Love-Hate Obsession With Commencement Speeches

Where everything and nothing is at stake

When Nan Goldin Danced in Low-Life Go-Go Bars in Paters...

When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J., I was a girl in Paterson, N.J., living next to a low-life go-go b...

Ozempic or Bust

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to...

Her Name Was Ella Watson

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

What Those Pro-Palestinian Chants Mean

A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause ...

Stadium Subsidies Are Getting Even More Ridiculous

You would think that three decades’ worth of evidence would put an end to giving taxpayer money to wealthy sports owners. Unfortun...

The Gaza Cease-Fire That Wasn’t

Four things to understand about the ongoing negotiations

The Stormy Daniels Testimony Spotlights Trump’s Misogyn...

It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex.

Enough With Saving the Honeybees

For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?


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