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The Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought

A new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses.

• Olga Khazan
• 3:00 PM ET

Earth Has Had a Secret Second Moon for Months Now

Don’t get too attached, though. It’s not sticking around.

• Marina Koren
• 2:34 PM ET

This Time, The Invisible Man Is Really About a Woman

Leigh Whannell’s update of the classic horror story follows an abuse survivor being terrorized by her ex.

• David Sims
• 1:09 PM ET

Cameo Is Weirder Than Anyone Expected

Welcome to the dark, chaotic, utterly mesmerizing soul of modern celebrity.

• John Cullen and Stefan Heck
• 12:02 PM ET

Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society

The government has refused to impose quarantines and is encouraging people to visit the city of Qom, the center of the outbreak.

• Graeme Wood
• 10:35 AM ET

A Bold and Controversial Idea for Making Breast Milk

The obsession with breastfeeding has inspired a start-up to make human milk outside the human body.

• Sarah Zhang
• 10:30 AM ET

Enacting Trump’s Revenge Campaign

The cuts to the National Security Council have less to do with making government better than with making it purer.

• John Gans
• 8:00 AM ET

Trump’s DOJ Interference Is Actually Not Crazy

In Trump’s mind, he is not politicizing law enforcement. On the contrary, he is trying to fight politicization coming from his opponents within the department.

• Mario Loyola
• 7:30 AM ET

The Party of Idolaters

The Republican Party, which some of us still hope to reform and which others have left, no longer deals in principle, morality, or the pursuit of the common welfare.

• Reed Galen, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson
• 6:30 AM ET

I Prepared for Everything, but Not Coronavirus on a Cruise Ship

Last year, I published a thriller set on a cruise. A few weeks ago, I found myself quarantined on the Diamond Princess.

• Gay Courter
• 6:00 AM ET

Venezuela Is the Eerie Endgame of Modern Politics

Citizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization.

• Anne Applebaum
• 6:00 AM ET

What Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Rivals Learned From Hillary Clinton

The senator from Vermont’s record on guns is once again under attack as he hopes to solidify his front-runner status.

• Russell Berman
• 5:00 AM ET

Feminism’s Purity Wars

Why has Erin Pizzey, once a pioneer of the women’s movement, been written out of its history?

• Helen Lewis
• 1:00 AM ET

The Most Unadaptable Book in Fiction

Dee Rees’s new Netflix film tackles the Joan Didion novel The Last Thing He Wanted. It may have been a futile task.

• Sophie Gilbert
• February 26, 2020

The Hard Drive With 68 Billion Melodies

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-re, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-mi … you get the picture.

• Alexis C. Madrigal
• February 26, 2020

The Peter Pan Story Has Lost Its Magic

Wendy, Benh Zeitlin’s visually stunning new film, attempts to reinvigorate an overused tale—and fails.

• David Sims
• February 26, 2020

The Democrats’ Dictator Problem

The candidates’ attempts at moral clarity got muddled when conversation turned to the trade-offs inherent in actually conducting American statecraft.

• Uri Friedman
• February 26, 2020

The Sixty Trillion Dollar Man

The price of Bernie Sanders’s agenda could be his biggest general-election weakness. But his rivals haven’t yet forced him to explain how he’d cover the full cost.

• Ronald Brownstein
• February 26, 2020

The Enemy of Poor Americans

Over the past half century, the Supreme Court’s empathy for the poor has been replaced by hostility.

• Adam Cohen
• February 26, 2020

Trump’s Intelligence War Is Also an Election Story

With a loyalist as acting director of national intelligence, the official line on issues like Russian election meddling could bend closer to the president’s.

• Mike Giglio
• February 26, 2020

The Chart That Reveals Your Kid’s Adult Height

Researchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart.

• Emily Oster
• February 26, 2020

What Nonvoters Want

Boosting turnout won’t necessarily help the most progressive candidate.

• Yascha Mounk
• February 26, 2020

Trump’s Quiet Power Grab

The president’s administration is attempting to bring thousands of federal employees under his control, and the public is largely unaware.

• Peter M. Shane
• February 26, 2020

What Stories About Racial Trauma Leave Out

The poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong depicts the everyday effects of prejudice in a way readers can’t leave behind.

• Joe Fassler
• February 26, 2020

Why America Radicalizes Brits

In its successes and failures, its wealth and dilapidation, the United States infects many of those who visit.

• Tom McTague
• February 26, 2020

The Loudest Debate Yet

Days before two race-defining contests, the seven Democrats seemed worried about what’s next.

• Russell Berman
• February 25, 2020

A Sanders Visit to New Hampshire Set Off Alarms He’d Primary Obama

His appearance at a local Democratic fundraiser in 2011 was the kind of move a potential presidential candidate would make to test the waters.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• February 25, 2020