An ode to the bygone days of blurry, poorly lit images | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
The U.S. economy is booming, but there’s a mysterious hole in the labor force. | Continue reading
He had no choice. | Continue reading
Claims about the drug are based on shoddy science—but that science is entirely unremarkable in its shoddiness. | Continue reading
"Four Hours at the Capitol," a new HBO documentary, is a vivid, terrifying picture of violent insurrection. | Continue reading
A new paper explains how “concept creep” in the field of psychology has reshaped many aspects of modern society. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one. | Continue reading
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one. | Continue reading
The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think. | Continue reading
Not long ago, the pursuit of commercial self-interest was largely reviled. How did we come to accept it? | Continue reading
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power. | Continue reading
The theory of defensive pessimism suggests that imagining—and planning for—worst-case scenarios can be more effective than trying to think positively. | Continue reading
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power. | Continue reading
A month of lava flows and ashfall has taken a toll on several small towns on the island of La Palma. | Continue reading
Arthur Brooks and Dr. Shefali, a clinical psychologist and mindfulness expert, discuss the definition and dangers of self-objectification—and what it really means to be yourself. | Continue reading
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. | Continue reading
King’s nightmare of racism is being presented as his dream. | Continue reading
A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best. | Continue reading
A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations. | Continue reading
The Babylon Bee, an online satire publication, has become a popular destination for Christians disaffected with megachurch culture and right-wingers who crave clever commentary about the hypocritical left. | Continue reading
Inside Alden Global Capital | Continue reading
If he wants the public to see the Court as apolitical, he should try meeting that standard himself. | Continue reading
The software made it easier to crack jokes and easier to stir up trouble. Employees love it. Bosses don’t. | Continue reading
It's worth remembering that the now-controversial holiday started as a way to empower immigrants and celebrate American diversity. | Continue reading
F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ev … | Continue reading
The video-sharing app avoids scrutiny because politicians don’t take it seriously. | Continue reading
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself. | Continue reading
The phenomenon is not as rare as one might think: healthy people deliberately setting out to rid themselves of one or more of their limbs, with or without a surgeon's help. Why do pathologies sometimes arise as if from nowhere? Can the mere description of a condition make it cont … | Continue reading
You can forge a happier relationship with your devices by using them more mindfully. | Continue reading
For years, women have had to control their voice, posture, and demeanor in the workplace. With Slack, we don’t have to worry about any of that. | Continue reading
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back? | Continue reading
A state-run French computer service from the 1980s offers a cautionary tale about too much reliance on today’s private internet providers. | Continue reading
The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. | Continue reading
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone. | Continue reading
In her writings, Simone de Beauvoir repeatedly returned to a childhood friendship that deeply influenced her views on freedom and human desire. | Continue reading
Is the collapse of genre boundaries and the erosion of fervent musical loyalties a good thing? | Continue reading
Writers should use images to question the truth instead of simply underlining it. | Continue reading
A faction of the right believes America has been riven into two countries. The Claremont Institute is building the intellectual architecture for whatever comes next. | Continue reading
WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global south. | Continue reading
For starters, hope is better. | Continue reading
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone. | Continue reading
It’s long past time for an upgrade. | Continue reading
Workplaces need fresh air, not foosball tables and coffee bars. | Continue reading
Social Security rewards long careers and high pay, all but guaranteeing that parents who focus on child-rearing receive the smallest payouts. My mom is one such parent. | Continue reading