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Best of <em>How To</em>: Waste Time

In a culture obsessed with productivity, what would it mean to let go?

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Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After...

The party’s debate about reinventing itself after the election has gotten more complicated.

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How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigrat...

The party once championed an approach popular with voters and politicians alike. Why give up on it?

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The Technology That Actually Runs Our Wo...

The most dominant algorithms aren’t the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you.

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Oliver Sacks’s Lifelong Search for Recog...

The famous neurologist and author devoted his life to revealing his patients’ humanity. He struggled harder to reveal himself.

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What If You Just Skipped the Holidays?

You can be a good family member without following traditions.

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A New View of a Distant Spiral

Day 16 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

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Has Your Cat Closed Its Rings Today?

Welcome to the era of the quantified pet.

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The Push for Puberty Blockers Got Ahead ...

Gender care for minors should be a question of evidence, not politics.

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How to Navigate the Era of Trump

Advice from the friends who sit on my bookshelves.

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Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-Lago

The tech industry’s Trump taboo is quickly becoming a distant memory.

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Six Binge-Worthy Movie Series

Spend some time with a good movie—or two, or three.

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Glowing From Within

Day 15 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

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Fossil Record for My Grandmother

A poem for Sunday

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Chris Rock Knows How to Troll

This week’s Saturday Night Live highlighted the comedian’s talent for provocation.

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How to Move on From the Worst of Identit...

Where should Democrats go from here?

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12 Years Later, Two Different Tales of G...

“I did not want to be another victim of Adam Lanza.”

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Books and Movies to Sustain an Attention...

Attention is hard to come by when you want it most.

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What Nikki Giovanni Wouldn’t Write About...

I had the privilege of editing the poet, who died on Monday. Her biggest lesson: Keep moving forward.

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The Health-Care System Isn’t Hopeless

There are better solutions than vigilante violence.

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A Sky Full of Stars

Day 14 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

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Trump Confronts Republican Rifts

How—and when—Republican lawmakers will turn the president-elect’s legislative agenda into law

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The Wellness Women Are on the March

Behind MAHA, RFK Jr.’s alternative-health movement, is a legion of Instagram influencers with millions of followers.

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What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok...

A federal court is floating a new framework for thinking about the First Amendment in the age of social media.

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Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Suppo...

Small-town America voted heavily in his favor—but the policies he’s pledged won’t reward that faith.

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A Mindset for the Trump Era

With authoritarianism rising everywhere, don’t forget about what the dissidents have to teach us.

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Hopeful Images From 2024

I’ve made it an annual tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past 12 months—an effort to seek out and recogni...

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‘It’s One of Those Infinite Time-Loop Si...

Solvej Balle’s series of novels brings up questions about physics, sustainability, and, yes, the meaning of life.

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A Cloud in the Deep Sky

Day 13 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

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Environmental Internationalism Is in Its...

Every major international negotiation—over biodiversity, plastics, and climate—failed to meet its goals.

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<em>Nickel Boys</em> Is an Audacious Exp...

RaMell Ross’s interpretation of Colson Whitehead’s novel is unlike anything else in theaters.

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Sora Is Finally Here

The most hyped bot since ChatGPT risks coming up short.

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What’s Going On With Those Drones Over N...

Strange things have been happening up and down the East Coast at night.

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The Government’s Disturbing Rationale fo...

Vague national-security concerns don’t justify shutting down the popular Chinese-owned app.

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The 13 Best TV Shows of 2024

The year’s most essential series

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Is This How Democrats Win Back the Worki...

Embracing populism could help the party build a lasting political coalition—if the Republicans don’t do it first.

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2024 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year

It’s time to revisit some of the most memorable events and images of 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton striking southea...

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The Ozempic Flip-Flop

West Virginia gave obesity drugs to teachers and state employees—then took them away.

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A Novel That Disrupts a Fundamental Law ...

In Solvej Balle’s new series, the concept of a time loop is more than a gimmick; it’s a way of rethinking human existence.

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Will January 6 Be Memory-Holed?

With Trump teasing pardons for Capitol rioters, Radio Atlantic shares host Hanna Rosin’s podcast series We Live Here Now, about th...

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A Clash of Titans

Day 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

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The Virtuous Circle of a Happy Personali...

Simply adopting positive traits such as being agreeable and conscientious will put you on an upward path to greater well-being.

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Liberals Have an Own-Goal Problem

Trump’s electoral victory has prompted many liberal women to move away from men, in politics and in life. Doing so is a gift to th...

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Adapting <em>One Hundred Years of Solitu...

Netflix’s rendition of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece works better than he might have expected.

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RFK Jr.’s Testosterone Regimen Is Almost...

But the would-be health secretary has shown more interest in pressing iron than pressing the science forward.

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