The first generation to grow up with social media, Millennials are now becoming the first generation to age out of it. | Continue reading
Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost. | Continue reading
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy | Continue reading
In practically every field of human endeavor, the average age of achievement and power is rising. | Continue reading
Taiwan’s Great Kinmen Island and its neighbor islets, in a harbor just east of the Chinese city of Xiamen, are practically surrounded by the People's Republic of China—in some places barely more than a mile apart. Reuters reports that the island is now "eyeing closer commercial t … | Continue reading
Marc Andreessen says he’s all for more new housing, but public records tell a different story. | Continue reading
Absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems. | Continue reading
Romance novels have radical ambitions. | Continue reading
A financial downturn doesn’t have to cause an emotional one. | Continue reading
“The silence of death rests on the vast landscape, save when it is swept by cruel winds that search out every chink and cranny of the buildings, and drive through each unguarded aperture the dry, powdery snow.” | Continue reading
Forming new habits isn’t impossible, but it’s much easier for some people than others. | Continue reading
The sound of gentrification is silence. | Continue reading
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe. | Continue reading
Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion she was seeking. She gave her baby girl up for adoption, and now that baby is an adult. After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life. | Continue reading
Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis. | Continue reading
The period before time off can be so intense that people need, well, a vacation to recover from it. | Continue reading
Customers were this awful long before the pandemic. | Continue reading
Scientists have known for decades that some people can be resistant to HIV infection. Why not the coronavirus, too? | Continue reading
The science of when to evacuate a community—and how—is still in its infancy. | Continue reading
Despite what Meta has to say. | Continue reading
Could famine be the missing piece? | Continue reading
Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems. | Continue reading
It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a kidney. | Continue reading
Preserving the world’s great expanses of grass could be essential to combatting climate change. | Continue reading
A returning cultural archetype is indifferent to power and extremely adept at enjoying meaninglessness. What a relief. | Continue reading
A perfect confluence of events created a stealth killer. | Continue reading
Americans are rightly anguished by gun violence and the question of what's motivating the young men who have committed a succession of horrific mass murders. We seem to be fumbling around for answers: Is it racism and radicalization, or untreated mental illness, or toxic video ga … | Continue reading
The endangered tuna was once reviled. How it became coveted--and why it's not so hard to swear it off. | Continue reading
Good marketing is supposed to generate demand. Bad firearms marketing has given us a national nightmare. | Continue reading
I understand why people hate all things Russian right now. But our literature did not put Putin in power or cause this war. | Continue reading
Six years before the first Apollo mission, two scientists from NASA argued for manned lunar exploration. | Continue reading
Masking only at the start and end of every flight will do a lot to keep you safe. | Continue reading
A father dares to explore his rage. | Continue reading
When the speed of repercussions drops, society loses a key deterrent against unlawful behavior. | Continue reading
If gas prices are plummeting, why is inflation rising? If jobs are growing, why is GDP falling? If everybody’s on vacation, why are consumers miserable? | Continue reading
Universities should limit bureaucrats’ power to investigate students and professors for expressing their opinions. | Continue reading
Respiratory-virus season starts basically tomorrow, and our autumn vaccine strategy is shaky at best. | Continue reading
Deborah Birx’s "Silent Invasion" offers more detail and nuance than any other pandemic book. | Continue reading
The endless churn of variants may not stop anytime soon, unless we do something about it. | Continue reading
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie. | Continue reading
In astronomy, the study of fast radio bursts can sometimes feel like a game of Clue. | Continue reading
Videochatting may be convenient, but it will never make us as happy as real human interaction. | Continue reading
A new study refutes the widespread idea that woodpeckers have shock-absorbing heads. | Continue reading
Musk cites three reasons for terminating his merger with Twitter. A new lawsuit points out why each of those reasons is extremely flimsy. | Continue reading
Americans are realizing the truth about White Claw: It’s bad! | Continue reading
This dispute is where all sanity and logic go to die. | Continue reading
The reporter Jonathan Katz explains how he wrestled with the sins of U.S. interventions abroad—and what to call them. | Continue reading