The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem? | Continue reading
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In the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daleep Singh, a national-security adviser, searched for areas where “our strengths intersect with Russian vulnerability.” | Continue reading
Steve Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, finally figured out a way to make some money for himself: he quit. This morning, Ballmer announced that he will … | Continue reading
Bills that aren’t bills arrive in the mail, doctors opt out of treatment, and patients need expert help to figure out which diseases they can afford to have. | Continue reading
Several experts say that Thomas’s husband, the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, must recuse himself from any case related to the 2020 election. | Continue reading
One man, eighteen wheels, and eighty thousand pounds of Dangerous Goods. | Continue reading
So far, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has not involved the sort of devastating cyberattacks that many anticipated. But it’s not clear why, or whether that pattern will hold. | Continue reading
Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. | Continue reading
As a physician who cared for the oldest and sickest people in New York’s jails, I thought the pandemic might create a portal to a better world. Two years later, I wonder if we missed our chance. | Continue reading
Style-setters from Egyptian princesses to Jackie Kennedy to Debbie Harry have embraced leopard prints. Proponents of a “species royalty” want designers to pay to help save endangered big cats. | Continue reading
Michelle Goldberg on the dispute over what it means to be a woman. The transgender-rights movement has forced a rethinking of what sex and gender mean, and radical feminists now find themselves shunned as reactionaries on the wrong side of a sexual-rights issue. | Continue reading
In the online era, shaming is a national pastime, and yet shameless conduct persists. Should we double down? | Continue reading
The frustrated Russian leader has punished officials for misjudging the invasion of Ukraine. But ordinary citizens remain in the dark. | Continue reading
In 1989, a young Chinese academic spent six months travelling in the United States. His insights are now central to Xi Jinping’s cultural crackdown. | Continue reading
At the active-living community for Jimmy Buffett enthusiasts, it’s five o’clock everywhere. | Continue reading
Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual. | Continue reading
How Marcel Duchamp, Walter and Louise Arensberg, and their many friends empowered the American avant-garde. | Continue reading
The truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels. | Continue reading
Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing-and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. In the world as it existed before Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24th, the Vnuko … | Continue reading
None of us thought my dad was the enemy. Perhaps booze was. At the time, thick as we were with shame, the enemy looked like other people. | Continue reading
Apple’s newest smartphone models use machine learning to make every image look professionally taken. That doesn’t mean the photos are good. | Continue reading
From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed. | Continue reading
The massive popularity of “Solaris” helped Lem become one of the most widely read science-fiction writers in the world. Yet his writing reached far beyond the borders of the genre. | Continue reading
The U.S. government arrested Chinese professors, implying that they were foreign agents. The professors say that they’ve been caught up in a xenophobic panic. | Continue reading
From 2018: There are plenty of other ways to achieve crispy chicken skin, Helen Rosner writes. But this one is better. | Continue reading
A majority of people in Russia get their news from state television, which depicts their country not as the aggressor in Ukraine but as a victim of the West. | Continue reading
After thwarting a quick victory for Russia, Ukrainians are galvanized—and facing a punitive assault. | Continue reading
An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West. | Continue reading
The black market for baby products is part of a larger debate about how New York City handles low-level crime. | Continue reading
The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better. | Continue reading
After the legendarily competitive Lowell High School dropped selective admissions, new challenges—and new opportunities—arose. | Continue reading
Josh Wardle created the viral game as part of his ongoing quest to design online spaces that don’t devolve into spam and swastikas. | Continue reading
Every spring, shed hunters head to the woods looking for deer and elk antlers that may fetch thousands of dollars, or social-media fame. | Continue reading
The reason the morning is so important is that I’ve spent the night somewhere else. | Continue reading
From 2011: Plentiful and protein-rich, insects are food in much of the world. Why not here? | Continue reading
The most beloved writer of his age, he had an unfailing sense of what the public wanted—almost. | Continue reading
Her method was meant for the public. Then it became a privilege. | Continue reading
Bo Gehring, eighty, has helped Jeff Koons with 3-D imaging, invented motorcycle brakes, and made a hamburger fly, catching the eye of Steven Spielberg. Next up: a low-tech COVID test. | Continue reading
A night of resignation, fear, and defiance at TV Rain. | Continue reading
Henry Hook is a brilliant and oddly beloved misanthrope, administering exquisite torture through dozens of puzzle books and syndicated crosswords. | Continue reading
For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind? | Continue reading
How to profile David Salle, the postmodern painter? Try starting your piece forty-one times. | Continue reading
The imperfect, scattershot search tool delivers just enough usefulness and serendipity to keep one hooked. | Continue reading
A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms. | Continue reading
Biologists are discovering the true nature of cells—and learning to build their own. | Continue reading
Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art. | Continue reading
Sunrise has already shifted the conventional wisdom about climate change. Now it wants to create a mass movement, combining street protest with policy negotiation, while there’s still time. | Continue reading