Why it’s so hard to answer the question What makes us happiest?
The difference between a private yard and a public forum
A volcanic eruption in Indonesia, a tilting tower in Taiwan, the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade in Japan, protests opposing Israel’s attacks on Gaza in the United States, and much more
The Supreme Court seems to be endorsing his views on presidential power.
Many Americans are reporting that they’d feel better if they slept more, but finding the right remedy isn’t always simple.
The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth
At this morning’s oral argument, the justices debated the ins and outs of Trump’s dangerous proposition.
Corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices.
AI embodies hypotheticals I can only imagine for myself. But I believe human impediments are what lead us to create meaningful art.
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
She can’t help identifying with the notorious bird from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem.
Prices have been rising faster than expected for the past three months. What’s going on?
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The key to transcendence starts with a practice, not your feelings.
Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt
A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the disease sweeping through animals and raising food-safety questions
The ban is a disaster, even if you support it.
Images of several of Chile’s national parks, encompassing a wide variety of environments
Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem.
The artist is an extraordinarily powerful woman who still, somehow, feels like she has no real power at all.
Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling.
Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
Why Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to rescue the speaker from his own party
A poem for Wednesday
Students are bearing the brunt of the disastrous FAFSA overhaul. That may affect where they go to college—and whether they enroll at all.
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.