The Evangelical Church Is Breaking Apart
Christians must reclaim Jesus from his church.
The Real Scandal About Ivermectin
Claims about the drug are based on shoddy science—but that science is entirely unremarkable in its shoddiness.
Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’
Being inclusive is important. But it’s not everything.
The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable
Midnight Mass is a morally urgent critique of how faith can fuel everyday cruelty and violence.
This Isn’t the Big Telescope Debut NASA Imagined
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake.
Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID
And why we’re failing to do the same things in America
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users
Internal documents show the company routinely placing public-relations, profit, and regulatory concerns over user welfare. And if you think it’s bad here, look beyond the U.S.
How to Know That You Know Nothing
Arthur Brooks and the Harvard psychology professor Dr. Ellen Langer discuss the importance of curiosity and living in the moment—and how an illusion of stability may be holding you back from exactly that.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
Human History Gets a Rewrite
A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.
The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.
Stop Shopping
America needs you to buy less junk.
The Truth About White America
The Census Bureau wanted to gather data about a changing nation, but ended up reinforcing old racial categories.
The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations.
Justice for the Dead
Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.
How Gunther Broke the Fourth Wall
James Michael Tyler, who died yesterday, played the beloved Friends character with a sense of ironized self-awareness.
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
The French Intellectual Who Refuses to Look Away
Rich societies were turning inward even before the pandemic, but Bernard-Henri Lévy won’t let them ignore atrocities elsewhere.