Five Stories for Autumn Lovers
These Sunday reads look at the shifting fall season, how Starbucks perfected the pumpkin spice latte, and more.
The Farmers Subletting Their Fields to Birds
Farmers are temporarily transforming their fields into much-needed wetlands.
The Final Weeks
With just over two weeks until Election Day, will the candidates’ shifting campaign rhetoric sway any new voters?
The Real Differences Between Introverts and Extroverts
Understanding these two types of personalities can help us better understand how personality is formed.
What Elon Musk Really Wants
The Tesla and X mogul has long dreamed of redesigning the world in his own extreme image. Trump may be his Trojan horse.
Sinwar’s Death Changes Nothing
The Gaza war will go on until both sides stop wanting it to.
Trump’s ‘Day of Love’ Caps a Bizarre Week
The former president’s mental coherence continues to unravel in public.
Two People Will Decide What Comes of Sinwar’s Death
Freedom for the hostages, or more of the same?
Big Tech Has Given Itself an AI Deadline
Why are AI execs suddenly saying that superintelligence is just around the corner?
The Age of AI Child Abuse Is Here
For maybe the first time, the scale of the problem is coming into view.
Who Owns an Idea?
Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what originality really means.
The Domestic Thriller That Shatters Chilean Myths
In Alia Trabucco Zerán’s novel Clean, a housekeeper’s testimony exposes social fissures that have endured after Pinochet.
Photos of the Week: Big Tex, Giant Regatta, Leaf Bath
A heart-shaped lake in Germany, sculptures by the sea in Australia, sightseeing in the Gobi desert, a colorful forest in Romania, a wife-carrying race in Maine, and much more
The Jewish Quarterback at a Mormon College
Faith and football at Brigham Young University
The ‘Peak Obesity’ Illusion
America’s obesity rate looks to be plateauing—again.
The Weak Science Behind Psychedelics
If vulnerable patients are going to take powerful hallucinogens, they deserve better evidence.
Abortion Pills Have Changed the Post-Roe Calculus
Every month, thousands of women in states where abortion is banned are able to get the pills by mail. The right wants to put a stop to that.
Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini
The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.
Five House Races to Watch
Democrats face a plausible—but tight—path to regaining control of the House.
Yahya Sinwar Finally Got What He Deserved
The question now is whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has enough strategic and moral sense to leverage its military wins into a plausible vision of peace.