What does society owe immunocompromised people? | Continue reading
A simian virus known as SV40 has been associated with a number of rare human cancers. This same virus contaminated the polio vaccine administered to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal health officials see little reason for concern. A growing cadre of medical research … | Continue reading
No one formula can guarantee love and lasting commitment, but “taking it slow” may be a losing strategy. | Continue reading
America needs medical abundance. | Continue reading
Scientific research alone cannot address the challenges that Americans with mental illness face. | Continue reading
American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war. | Continue reading
A profound failure of the Western imagination has brought Europe to the brink of war. | Continue reading
When parenting becomes about perfectionism, you’re missing the point. | Continue reading
Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real? | Continue reading
As a writer, I’ve explored political rage at a distance. The anti-vax trucker convoy brought it up close and personal. | Continue reading
Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees. | Continue reading
Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees. | Continue reading
How I made myself less unpleasant | Continue reading
The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them | Continue reading
The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. | Continue reading
“It’s a weird sense to need.” | Continue reading
Athletes are often held to a lower standard by admissions officers, and in the Ivy League, 65 percent of players are white. | Continue reading
The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections. | Continue reading
Xi Jinping’s first and only priority is political security, making a quick reopening almost untenable. | Continue reading
Somehow, star endorsements have found a new low. | Continue reading
These 14 titles have been under attack for doing exactly what literature is supposed to do. | Continue reading
Web3 is making some people very rich. It’s making other people very angry. | Continue reading
Are we living through a replay of the ’90s, when most people just didn’t get “this internet thing”? | Continue reading
The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. | Continue reading
Authorizing two shots for little kids right now could be a double gamble. | Continue reading
Venus is white. So is the sun. They’re beautiful anyway. | Continue reading
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor. | Continue reading
Decentralizing tech can allow more Americans to stay rooted in their communities—whether that’s in Silicon Valley or rural Kentucky. | Continue reading
The soft, sad freaks on an unprofitable website claimed victory in the battle for the internet’s soul and defined the worldview of a generation. | Continue reading
The cultural left’s worldview is beginning to distort health policy. | Continue reading
Taxpayers should be wary of the U.S. government for pushing ID.me’s face-based biometric technology on them. | Continue reading
Three Stanford scientists have proposed a provocative new way of thinking about genetic variants, and how they affect people’s bodies and health. | Continue reading
The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past. | Continue reading
What happened when my West Texas community—unlike many large blue cities—prioritized a normal education for children | Continue reading
Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit. | Continue reading
A carbon dividend seemed like a great way to solve climate politics. But it might not work. | Continue reading
What a shared rejection spreadsheet taught me about success | Continue reading
For such a familiar celestial body, the sun is still very mysterious—but we’re getting closer to it than ever before. | Continue reading
Plastic production just keeps expanding, and now is becoming a driving cause of climate change. | Continue reading
America has a love affair with “productive leisure.” | Continue reading
Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too. | Continue reading
Supply is low, demand is high—but that alone cannot explain the weird indignity of renting a vehicle. | Continue reading
“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.” | Continue reading
The first domesticated animals may have been tamed twice. | Continue reading
No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there. | Continue reading
Putting things off can improve your performance—if you do it right. | Continue reading