The universe doesn’t care about you. | Continue reading
Kaitlyn Tiffany on how Slack and Giphy hastened the decline of a treasured mode of online expression, the GIF | Continue reading
A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.” | Continue reading
Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly. | Continue reading
How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme | Continue reading
Learning what the common triggers for eating too much food are and how to manage them is our best defense against expanding waistlines. | Continue reading
Over the past year, it has become evident that there are key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states. | Continue reading
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war. | Continue reading
N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better. | Continue reading
The story of the Russian mob in Spain—and the detectives who spent years trying to bring them down. | Continue reading
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini. | Continue reading
On its fiftieth anniversary, how should we think of the Second World War?What is its contemporary meaning? One possible meaning, reflected in everyline of what follows, is obscured by that oddly minimizing term "conventionalwar." With our fears focused on nuclear destruction, w … | Continue reading
Parody is being threatened right when we need it most. | Continue reading
As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy. As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law. As a person, he is a smaller-than-life fi … | Continue reading
With a bit of science, maybe someday we will all eat pawpaws. | Continue reading
Students need more exposure to the way everyday things work and are made. | Continue reading
The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence. | Continue reading
Accessory dwelling units might just spell the end of the American suburb as we know it—in the best possible way. | Continue reading
What Russian trolls can teach us about American voters | Continue reading
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks. | Continue reading
Misconceptions about pastors, playwrights, postal workers, and other professionals | Continue reading
Long before the NFT boom or the Web3 backlash, an unglamorous movement was underway. Where does it stand now? | Continue reading
A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process. | Continue reading
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish? | Continue reading
What happened when Alabama tried and failed to kill Alan Eugene Miller | Continue reading
After he discovered a new anatomical basis for how movement decreases stress | Continue reading
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive. | Continue reading
The story of America’s “lost crops” shows the reign of corn was not inevitable. | Continue reading
The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends. | Continue reading
Ed Yong is taking a six-month sabbatical because of burnout from pandemic reporting # | Continue reading
Yesterday, the world got a look inside Elon Musk's phone. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is currently in litigation with Twitter and trying to back out of his deal to buy the platform and take it private. As part of the discovery process related to this lawsuit, Delaware's Court of Cha … | Continue reading
Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over." Anthony Fauci described the controversy around the proclamation as a matter of "semantics," but the facts we are living with can speak for themselves.(the … | Continue reading
Hurricane Ian shows some symptoms of global warming. But saying anything beyond that is folly. | Continue reading
How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs? | Continue reading
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis. | Continue reading
Many insurers don't cover it, and most people who qualify are afraid to get the procedure, but bariatric surgery has proven to be effective. | Continue reading
And grit is not always a virtue. | Continue reading
Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that. | Continue reading
The former president tried to sell his preferred version of himself, but said much more than he intended. | Continue reading
Amelia Nagoski discusses quiet quitting. | Continue reading
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients. | Continue reading
An email from a stranger sent me on a quest back in time, to the years before the Holocaust, in search of my family and myself. | Continue reading
Wishful thinking hampers the clean-energy revolution. | Continue reading
"Can you believe these are my customers?" Donald Trump once asked while surveying the crowd in the Taj Mahal casino's poker room. "Look at those losers," he said to his consultant Tom O'Neil, of people spending money on the floor of the Trump Plaza casino.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
A lifelong promoter of vaccines suspects he might be the rare, unfortunate exception. | Continue reading
The email came from a stranger. "Dear Mr. Temple," it said. "My name is Andrea Paiss, and I live in Budapest, Hungary. I do not know whether I write to the right person. I just hope so."(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading