The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
Artificial intelligence is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists.
The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025
Reviewing Project 2025’s year of successes and shortcomings
Photos: The Year in Volcanic Activity
Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year
Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power
The Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agents—but the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard.
Mary Todd Lincoln, Taken Out of Context
The challenge of staging Oh, Mary! for a British audience
The Sad Dads of Hollywood
Three of the year’s buzziest films hold career-obsessed, absentee fathers accountable.
North Road, Fall 2020
A poem
The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game
For college-football fans, the playoffs are now everything.
Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Spend time with a selection of articles that resonated with our readers this year.
The Santa Presidency
Trump is trying to fix the economy—by handing out cash.
Good Intentions Gone Bad
How Canada’s “reconciliation” with its Indigenous people went wrong
55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025
We’ll never look at potatoes the same way again.
The Year in Food
How prices, tastes, and preferences changed in 2025
A ‘Trump Class’ Folly on the High Seas
Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t.
A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else
Salmon with Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, plus other hypothetical dinner parties from The Katie Miller Podcast
How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling.
The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days
Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year.
The Most Memorable Advice of 2025
Meditations on how to nurture and strengthen your relationships in the new year
The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.