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Na Kim The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination
They say religious discrimination against Christians is as big a problem as discrimination against other groups.
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Oliver Munday Abolish the Priesthood
To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands.
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An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Self-Limiting Revolution
Knock Down the House set out to show an inspiring political movement—but instead revealed its boundaries.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones
I decided to noise-cancel life.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Pleases Trump Has the Force of Law
No president I know of has asserted a blanket power to reject any request that doesn’t suit him—until Donald Trump.
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Frederick Florin / Getty Images The Problem With the SAT’s Idea of Objectivity
Faced with the messy realities of entrenched privilege, the College Board is trying to find a quantitative solution.
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HBO I’ve Never Watched Game of Thrones. But Here’s What I Know
Goodbye, dragon show.
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David Pitt / AP I’m the Longest-Serving Republican in the Iowa Legislature, and I’m Switching Parties
There are times when you have to follow the dictates of your conscience. For me, that time has come.
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Sean Nel / Shutterstock A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers
Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
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NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... A Nazi Controversy Deep in the Solar System
Scientists gave a mysterious object a nickname with a dark history. Now they have to decide whether to let it stick.
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Jeff Swinger / USA Today / Reuters The Change That Could Make the NBA Playoffs Watchable
The postseason is lagging in action and viewership. A skunk rule could be the solution.
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Aly Song / Reuters To China, All's Fair in Love and Trade Wars
China has more leverage in its trade war with the U.S. than you think.
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Artur Debat / Getty What Is Pornography Doing to Our Sex Lives?
In the latest episode of Crazy/Genius, we wade into the debate over pornography to determine what, if anything, can be said about its effects on our relationships.
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John Cuneo Desus and Mero Give a Crash Course in Wokeness
Can the stars of the hit podcast Bodega Boys win over a broader—and whiter—audience on Showtime?
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N. D. Mitrofanov / Natural Nidality of Transmissible ... Soviets Tried So, So Hard to Eliminate the Plague
“Literally tens of thousands of people were employed to just spoon poison into the burrows.”
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Gillian Flaccus / AP Why the Government Pays Billions to People Who Claim Injury by Vaccines
A little-known deal protects drug companies in the U.S. from being sued—and feeds conspiracy theories in the process.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Joe Biden’s Bet That 2016 Didn’t Change Everything
In many ways, he’s running the same kind of campaign he would have in a pre-Trump, pre-Sanders era.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Photos of the Week: Snowy Ladybug, Shattered Lance, Mexican Smog
Engineering fashion in Beijing, a luxury houseboat for rising seas, flooding in Paraguay, the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Italy, Buddha’s-birthday observations in Taiwan, skateboarding in Los Angeles, and much more
