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The Collapse of Cuba

Hunger. Sickness. Blackouts. Abandoned streets. The withering of the state is shocking to behold.

Forget Grit

Even the luminaries of the self-help genre have begun to recognize how little in life we can actually control.

How to Turn Anxiety Into Adventure

The secret is to turn your feeling of dread into the excitement of opportunity.

White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now

The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work.

Fall Is in the Air, Part II

More images of the season, as autumn colors reach their peak and people are out working in fields, going for walks, and taking photographs, while animals migrate or prepare for the winter to come

The Bursting of the Tel Aviv Bubble

The liberal, cosmopolitan side of Israel is facing a moment of truth.

How American Girl Doll Lost Its Way

At 40, the brand faces a midlife crisis.

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

Read This Website While You Still Can

Parts of the internet are going dark to protect against a newly discovered vulnerability.

What You Are About to See From Oleshky, Ukraine, Is a Lie

The Kremlin is staging whitewashed tours of a city it has terrorized.

The Secret Code of Pickup Basketball

The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?

Inside the Plan to Send 1,000 DOJ Monitors to the Polls

The Justice Department has assured local officials that monitoring will follow past norms, but election clerks say they have reason to worry.

Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?

The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

What If He Actually Did It?

I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.

Trump Is Closing From Behind

His final plea to voters is not about the issues that matter the most to them.

What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span

Jenny Odell, the author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, has advice for fighting back against the forces of digital distraction.

Will This Be the U.K.'s New Flag?

With a referendum on Scottish independence coming later this year, Britain may have to re-think the Union Jack.

The Internet Might Need to Be Rebuilt From Scratch

Bank hacks, power grids, and AI’s Black October