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Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there’s new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet

Sex, money, and the future of online free speech

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

Crypto’s Moral Ledger For the big trading platforms, the war in Ukraine has turned borderlessness into a liability.

Cromer

In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul.

SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD

There's a better way to educate our kids.

How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World

The same forces that stalled a national transformation ended up fueling it.

The Man Who Told All

How the naked grief of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud inaugurated an American genre

The Goon Squad Gets Old

Do Jennifer Egan's tricks still work?

A Good Man, at One Time

How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution

A Deep Dive Into Our Ratings

Breaking down and analyzing our cigar ratings from the past year

The Godfather at 50

Conceived as a quick payday fashioned from a lurid novel, the landmark gangster movie became a cultural phenomenon and quite possibly the greatest movie ever made

What Happened at the Stables

When show jumping became the latest Olympic sport to be plagued by revelations that young female athletes had been sexually abused by respected older men, some equestrians fought back—against the organization set up to stop the problem

Rent to Own: Purchasing Power

Minneapolis weighs a law that could let renters buy their place—or pick their landlord.

Rule the School: Boards of Control

Our long history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in education

Food for Thought: There Will Be Blood

Lab-grown meat still requires slaughterhouse products.

Break the Chain

We’ve got a plastics problem. Will chemical recycling solve it?

Looks Don't Kill

Plastic surgery has a troubled history inside prisons. Some advocates want it to make a comeback.

Holy War

How Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church— starting with the pope

The Pushback

Millions of refugees are fleeing war, persecution, and the effects of the climate crisis. A new frontier of brutality awaits them.

The Coming Coup

The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.

MASSACRE at FLOWERTOWN

2.5 MILLION DEAD BEES, AND AN UNLIKELY TEST OF PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS

IS HIGH INFLATION THE NEW NORMAL?

ECONOMICS

HOW THE WAR ON SPRAWL CAUSED HIGH HOUSING PRICES

REGULATION

How Robots Will Transform the 2020s

THE SERVICE BOT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WAREHOUSES, HOSPITALS, FARMS, AND MAYBE YOUR HOME.

Weather Is Not Climate. Or Is It?

Science

Why Can't We Build Anything?

Future

The Real Cost of a Magical Education

Blood, sweat, and tears in Naomi Novik’s scholomance novels

Can We Fix San Francisco?

San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians

Two Libertarianisms

Within the big tent, a divide over libertarianism’s limits

Corruption and Crackdowns in California's Marijuana Market

Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.