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The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right

Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation, makes the case against devices for children—even if they desperately want them....

There’s No Such Thing as Good Housing News

The Texas capital built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and The Wall Street Journal is unhappy.

Trump’s Dangerous January 6–Pardon Promise

The convicted rioters are criminals, not hostages.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump Have Thoughts About Your Nex...

Get ready for the EV election.

The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax

Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology.

The IRS Created an Actually Good Piece of Technology

The government finally has an answer to TurboTax.

Flying Is Weird Right Now

Is flying less safe? Or are we just paying closer attention?

Valencia’s Fallas Festival: Welcoming Spring with Fire...

Scenes from the festival featuring parades, fireworks, and fiestas, and the burning of hundreds of wooden sculptures

It Is the Best and Worst of Times for Air Travel

Is flying less safe? Or are we just paying closer attention?

What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With D...

Trump fans don’t like how he demeans people. They’ll vote for him anyway.

Nature That Cannot Be Driven To

A poem for Wednesday

Six Books That Will Jolt Your Senses Awake

Reading can help us cultivate a more patient, attentive state of mind by highlighting the beauty present in our day-to-day lives.

Nature Which Cannot Be Driven To

A poem for Wednesday

The Problem With ‘Affordable’ Child Care

The service is essential to families and communities. It should be free.

I’m Begging the Courts to Stop Citing My Work

A court finally took notice of my reporting—but for all the wrong reasons.

Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point

America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication platforms from foreign control.

Germany’s Zombie Government Is Fueling the Far Right

Extremists are benefiting from the persistence of problems that shouldn’t be so hard to solve.

What to Read to Reawaken Your Senses

Literature can help us cultivate a more patient, attentive state of mind by highlighting the beauty in our day-to-day lives.

The Founders Would Have Been Worried About TikTok

America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication platforms from foreign control.

Germans Want to Sideline the Far Right. The Government ...

Extremists are benefiting from the persistence of problems that shouldn’t be so hard to solve.

Child Care Shouldn’t Be Affordable. It Should Be Free....

A failure of imagination is holding us back from fixing a broken system.

There Was No Russian Election

Vladimir Putin staged an elaborate charade—so why did some western media outlets play along?

The British Right’s Favorite Sex Offender

What does a conservative magazine do when a columnist is convicted of attempted rape?

How America Got Scammed

Modern fraudsters are taking advantage of social isolation and insecurities—and Americans of all ages are falling prey.

War-Gaming for Democracy

I went to an exercise imagining the first day of a second Trump presidency—and left with some unsettling questions.

Truman Capote’s Ultimate Weapon

FX’s Feud showed how attention can be wielded to comfort—and to wound.

A Glowing Petunia Could Radicalize Your View of Plants

A bioluminescent petunia could help people recognize plants for the complex creatures they are.

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

The case for teaching coders to speak French.

Wargaming for Democracy

I went to an exercise imagining the first day of a second Trump presidency—and left with some unsettling questions.

The Dead-Enders of the Reagan-Era GOP

Mike Pence’s non-endorsement of Donald Trump only underlines how irrevocably the Republican Party has left traditional conservatis...

Does a Houseplant Need to Glow for You to See It as Ali...

A bioluminescent petunia could help people recognize plants for the complex creatures they are.

The Mothers Who Aren’t Waiting to Give Their Children C...

A new treatment can change a person’s life, but is not officially approved for anyone under 2.

It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party Anymore

And Mike Pence just endorsed that fact.

The Mothers Who Aren't Waiting to Give Their Children C...

A new treatment can change a person’s life, but is not officially approved for anyone under 2.

Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead

For decades, sitting was a both a job and a rite of passage.  Now it feels more like a symbol of a bygone American era.

The Pregnant Moms Trying to Get a Miracle Drug for Thei...

A new treatment for cystic fibrosis can change a person’s life, but is not officially approved for anyone under 2.

The Ego Has Crash-Landed

If Donald Trump loses November’s election, it will be for one reason: He can’t help making it all about himself.

Whatever Happened to Teen Babysitters?

As both child care and adolescence have changed, the sitter has started to disappear.

Caitlin Clark Is Just the Beginning

After decades of treatment as second-class citizens, female college athletes are surpassing men in popularity, interest, and finan...

The Worst Argument for Youth Transition

Andrea Long Chu says the unpopular part out loud.

Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Again

Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story.

Putin’s Nuclear Theatrics

The Kremlin continues its clumsy nuclear games with threats to send Russian weapons to Belarus.

Elon Musk Just Added a Wrinkle to the AI Race

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

AI for the People, Courtesy of … Elon Musk?

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

Kanye’s Creepy Comeback

Despite his supposed cancellation, the Hitler-praising rapper has his first No. 1 single since 2011.


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