This week, like almost every week, federal agents will drop hundreds of people at the bus station in Brownsville, Texas. Those people will complete some paperwork, then board a bus-or sometimes a flight from Brownsville's airport-to other destinations across the United States.(th … | Continue reading
A cheating controversy involving two grandmasters shows how computers have transformed the game. | Continue reading
Responsibly disposing of used gadgets is more complicated than it may seem. | Continue reading
Why do so many kids need glasses now? | Continue reading
The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting. | Continue reading
How will they interpret the past? | Continue reading
How “coolhunters” helped make YouTube into an internet sensation before the algorithms took over. | Continue reading
How the terrorists stopped terrorism | Continue reading
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke. | Continue reading
They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the right reasons. | Continue reading
Our society is becoming less religious. Or is it? | Continue reading
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.” | Continue reading
For reasons rooted in the values of contemporary culture, the concept of shame had until recently all but vanished from discussions of emotional disarray. Now it is regarded by many psychologists as the preeminent cause of emotional distress in our time | Continue reading
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution? | Continue reading
This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression. | Continue reading
Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences, including depression, weight gain, and heart disease. It is torture. I know. | Continue reading
A new Johns Hopkins study looks at the neuroscience of jazz and the power of improvisation. | Continue reading
Salman Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly yesterday at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York. He is on a ventilator. He has wounds to his neck, stomach, and liver; severed nerves in one of his arms; and, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, will probably lose an e … | Continue reading
A mysterious pro-abortion-rights group is claiming credit for acts of vandalism around the country, and right-wing activists and politicians are eating it up. | Continue reading
The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide. | Continue reading
Will splitting monkeypox vaccines in five work out? | Continue reading
There are no good solutions to the problems of closet clean-out. | Continue reading
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