Millions of children from poor families who excel in math and science rarely live up to their potential—and that hurts everyone. | Continue reading
You know, the planet? | Continue reading
In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back. | Continue reading
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If anything, the hit show’s triumphant return is only further proof of the streamer’s unsustainability. | Continue reading
Of all the monikers bestowed on the remote control, clicker makes the least sense. Sure, channel-changer is a mouthful, but at least it describes the device's function. | Continue reading
Karen Ocwieja delivered her twin sons last June, just weeks before Delta broke across the American Northeast. For months, she and her husband sheltered the boys, who'd been born premature, limiting their exposures to friends, family, and other kids, hoping to guard them from COVI … | Continue reading
You might be a hipster if you’re mistaking abstraction for transcendence. | Continue reading
The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air. | Continue reading
Some of the military-technology agency’s images are disconcerting. Others are actually kind of cute. | Continue reading
A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan. | Continue reading
Michael Shellenberger is betting on the frustration of California voters—even though most experts disagree with the solutions he’s selling. | Continue reading
Civilization's oldest stories are war stories. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Iliad and The Aeneid, our attractions to war and to storytelling have often been entwined. We tell ourselves stories to impose order on chaotic events in our lives, to force a narrative onto the inco … | Continue reading
Through reading, I learned that disagreement can be a source of good, not ill, even in our polarized age. | Continue reading
Russia’s botched invasion has illustrated the diminishing power of heavy and expensive military power. | Continue reading
If 15-minute-delivery apps sound too good to be true, that’s because they are. | Continue reading
From bobby-soxers to Beatlemania to Bieber Fever—we all know what a screaming fangirl looks like. But do we really know why she’s screaming? | Continue reading
The online-speech debate pretends that we must choose between absolute freedom and centralized control. Let’s try something else. | Continue reading
Most adults can’t remember much of what happened to them before age 3 or so. What happens to the memories formed in those earliest years? | Continue reading
Newly revealed Vatican documents uncover a long-held secret: As war broke out, Pius XII used a Nazi prince to negotiate with Adolf Hitler. | Continue reading
Rather than wiping the slate clean on student debt, Washington should take a hard look at reforming a broken system. | Continue reading
Starting over can feel impossible when it involves a sunk cost—an investment with no returns. But when it comes to your career, is it ever too late to start over? | Continue reading
Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence. | Continue reading
Will the danger mount each time, or will it fade away? | Continue reading
Carriers are banking on the psychological allure of marginal luxury. | Continue reading
It used to dominate American fitness practice. Now it’s all but over. | Continue reading
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age. | Continue reading
We were told today, in the latest version of events offered by authorities in Texas, that police left children locked in a classroom with a gunman for 78 minutes as they repeatedly called 911 begging for help, not knowing that their would-be rescuers were standing idly by.(theatl … | Continue reading
Deep in Yellowstone National Park, Mike Belderrain stumbled into an area where, technically, the law couldn’t touch him. | Continue reading
After publishing an article on office jargon, we asked you for your most loathed examples. | Continue reading
The grieving people of Uvalde, Texas, a town in the Hill Country about 100 miles west of San Antonio, now confront the irreplaceability of life in one of its most ghastly and unnatural incarnations: the murder of at least 19 children and two adults, with several more injured.(the … | Continue reading
We used to come together on social media. Now we come apart. | Continue reading
What makes things cool? | Continue reading
I can no longer honestly tell my kids that everything will be okay. | Continue reading
The American Civil Liberties Union, writes its senior litigator, has not abandoned that historic vocation. | Continue reading
Is travel “a fool’s paradise,” per Ralph Waldo Emerson, or the only way to understand “La Dolce Vita”? | Continue reading
Sabbaticals can give people an invaluable opportunity to rest and reflect on their identity beyond their job. | Continue reading
“Beauty and the Beast,” a new collection of folk stories from around the world, explores the strangeness of interspecies relationships. | Continue reading
A fierce debate is raging within the U.S. Marine Corps about what comes next. | Continue reading
Educators need a plan ambitious enough to remedy enormous learning losses. | Continue reading
When a currency’s value is based on belief alone, it’s liable to evaporate. | Continue reading
Facing the painful parts of life head-on is the only way to feel at home with yourself. | Continue reading
An informal, online network is translating publicly available articles and social-media posts. That has been enough to rile Beijing. | Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox-a rare but potentially severe viral illness with dozens of confirmed or suspected cases in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
That's the question that flashes through American minds after a mass shooting. Was the alleged killer a jihadi, like the shooter at the Pulse night club in Orlando in 2016? A left-wing extremist, like the shooter who attacked a congressional baseball practice in 2017? A vegan ani … | Continue reading
Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift. | Continue reading
I feel a rush of longing when I see a cute baby, but I can’t tell if I’m ready to have one of my own. | Continue reading
Robert Fruchtman has documented dozens of community meetings, making it easier for activists, politicians, and journalists to notice San Francisco’s housing crisis and get involved. | Continue reading