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Mendelsund / Munday Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP Kim Kardashian's Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines
“Rich people don’t get their own ‘better’ firefighters, or at least they aren’t supposed to.”
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Mike Segar / Reuters There Is No Progressive Majority in America
“Anti-Left” still beats “anti-Trump” in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, and in many other places besides.
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Matthieu Bourel The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory
Peter Navarro—a business-school professor, a get-rich guru, a former Peace Corps member, and a former Democrat—is among the most important generals in Trump’s trade war.
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Steve Marcus / Reuters Not All White Women
Some progressives are blaming a single demographic group for a string of losses in the midterm elections—but that distorts the actual results.
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal
Each year, local governments spend nearly $100 billion to move headquarters and factories between states. It’s a wasteful exercise that requires a national solution.
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Library of Congress / Joe Raedle / Getty ... Is Something Neurologically Wrong With Donald Trump?
It is best not to diagnose the president from afar, which is why the federal government needs a system to evaluate him up close.
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Wenjia Tang The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil
Weeks ago, Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the Northern Mariana Islands, which are home to tens of thousands of Americans. Mainland outlets paid little attention.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters House Republicans Still Can’t Get Along
The members may not be capable of uniting to block the Democrats' legislative agenda—or their investigations of President Trump.
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WELL GO USA How Burning Captures the Toll of Extreme Inequality in South Korea
Lee Chang-dong’s new film paints a deft and intimate portrait of a young generation beset by economic desperation.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP The Significance of Michelle Obama’s Fertility Story
The cultural stereotype of an IVF patient is an older white woman, even though black women are almost twice as likely to struggle with infertility.
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Nikola Solic / Reuters The Myth Of the Traumatized Neanderthal
Contrary to popular belief, they weren’t exceptionally prone to head injuries, and certainly no more so than early humans.
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Edmon de Haro How to Salvage Congress
When I was elected to the House of Representatives two years ago, I found the problems weren’t as bad as I’d expected—they were worse.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’
In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.
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M. Kornmesser / ESO A Surprise Discovery Around a Lonely Star
A planet more than three times the mass of Earth may be orbiting in a star system long thought to be barren.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Ubiquity of Smartphones, as Captured by Photographers
The total number of smartphone users worldwide will reach an estimated 3 billion this year—here’s a look at the visual landscape.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires
“The fire, to me—it’s like an ocean. It’s so strong that we don’t really stand a chance of doing much to it.”
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Jasu Hu Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
