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Looking Up
When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.
The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful
The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
Private Schools Are Indefensible
The Gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.
Our Sad Souvenirs of The Pandemic
Americans can’t go anywhere, but we’re still buying the T-shirt.
Beirut – After The Blast
Last summer’s explosion in Beirut killed hundreds of people and damaged much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works—and doesn’t.
Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
A growing g number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
The Relentless Philip Roth
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
NO, REALLY, ARE WE ROME?
The sack of the Capitol was thwarted. But history suggests that corrosive change can be hard to see while it’s happening.
Tom Stoppard's Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
Bring Back The Nervous Breakdown
It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.
When America Became a Democracy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally delivered on the stated ideals of this country. Now it hangs by a thread.
The United States of Amazon
How the giant company has transformed the geography of wealth and power
Noisy, Ugly, and Addictive
Hyper pop could become the countercultural sound of the 2020s.
Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Even a pandemic can't stop people from buying clothes they don't need.
Caroline Shaw is Making Classical Cool
Her innovative work won her a Pulitzer Prize at age 30. She’s collaborated with Kanye and Nas. What does her success mean for the long-suffering genre?
Extremely Online and Wildly Out of Control
Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel explores the mind, and heart, of an internet-addled protagonist.
We Mourn For All We Do Not Know
The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a window into our heritage—to stories of suffering but also of love, joy, wonder, and survival. They’re an all-too-rare link to ordinary black lives gone by.
A Forgotten Founder
Prince Hall was a free african american in Boston at a time of revolutionary fervor— and a transformative figure whose story deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America's creation.
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
The Committee on Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical guidelines has meant that doctors have had to make wrenching life-and-death decisions on the fly. The result has been chaos and unnecessary suffering, among both patients and clinicians. As the country prepares to distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of reprising this chaos.
The Covid-19 Manhattan Project
Never have so many researchers trained their minds on a single problem in so brief a time. Science will never be the same.
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
The Legacy of Donald Trump
His reign of lies poisoned our minds and our politics, with effects that will long linger. But democracy survived.
Jeans Now, Pay Later
Are the new online services that allow you to buy just about anything in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
China's Rebel Historians
Defiant researchers chronicle a past that the Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
How Great Is Martin Amis?
Assessing the legacy of a comic master who grasps for seriousness
More Than the Vote
The suffragists’ struggle produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
School Wasn't So Great Before Covid, Either
Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely.
THE HISTORIAN WHO SEES THE FUTURE
PETER TURCHIN BELIEVES HE HAS DISCOVERED IRON LAWS THAT DICTATE THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS. HE PREDICTS A DIRE DECADE FOR THE UNITED STATES.