Think About Your Death and Live Better
Contemplating your mortality might sound morbid, but it’s actually a key to happiness.
The War Is Not Here to Entertain You
The war in Ukraine is reaching a crucial moment. Will it recapture the world’s flagging attention?
Tina Turner’s Cosmic Life
The late singer stretched human expression to its fraying limits—and then her story became a folktale.
DeSantis’s Campaign of Trolling
The Florida governor seems to understand that in today’s GOP primary, serious people need not apply.
You Hurt My Feelings Is a Hilarious Anxiety Spiral
The film traces a betrayal that’s trivial, comical, and also completely devastating.
Photos: Ukraine’s Battlefield Drones
Images of some of the many small drones being used on Ukraine’s battlefields
There Is No Evidence Strong Enough to End the Pandemic-Origins Debate
The recent fight over wet-market raccoon dogs underscores just how much prior beliefs can affect interpretation.
The Israeli Minister Who Is Defending Elon Musk
Amichai Chikli championed the billionaire when his tweets were criticized for anti-Semitic overtones. I asked Chikli why.
The Non-Rise and Actual Fall of Ron DeSantis
For a while the Florida governor seemed like the clear Trump alternative. Little has materially changed since then, except for everything.
The Problem With How the Census Classifies White People
Being an unspecified “white” person has allowed many Americans to blend in. In this era of identity-driven polarization, we should acknowledge all the ways we are different.
We Still Don’t Know Anna Nicole Smith
A new Netflix documentary offers glimpses of the tabloid star but fails to reckon with the forces that ruined her.
Hawaii’s Feral Chickens Are Out of Control
Polynesians brought chickens’ wild ancestors to the islands. Europeans brought domestic chickens. Now they’ve mixed, and are everywhere.
Local Politics Was Already Messy. Then Came Nextdoor.
Community moderators say the social network is being exploited for political gain.
There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling
The Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t give Joe Biden a way out of this crisis.
The Moral Case for Working Less
We shouldn’t work less simply because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans.
The Meat Paradox
Vegetarianism is more popular than ever—but so is meat consumption. How can this be?
Four Forces Bind Trump’s Supporters More Tightly Than Ever
Reckoning with their enduring adherence to a broken man
American Guns, American Deaths
What photographs of the sites of mass shootings show—and what they omit
A Grim American Anniversary
One year after Uvalde, America’s morbid mass-shooting tradition carries on.
Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network
It can no longer be denied.