What to Read When You Want to Quit
These titles help readers think through pressing questions about modern employment—including whether it’s time to walk away.
What Democrats Can Learn From the Trauma of 1968
They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites.
The Walz-Vance Inversion
Both candidates seek to appeal to swing voters as well as their party’s base—but they do so in totally opposite ways.
Having a Chance Has Changed the Democrats
After months of gloom, the prospect of victory has transformed the party faithful.
A Hot New Bombshell Is Taking Over Reality TV
Love Island USA is a dizzy, goofy delight—but the reasons for its success go deeper than its vision of dating-show chaos.
A Marriage That Changed Literary History
Fanny Stevenson forced her husband, Robert Louis Stevenson, to live a bigger life than he had known.
What I Learned at the Police Academy
Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly.
Israel on the Brink
If the Israelis find themselves facing difficult choices, so do their enemies.
Tim Walz Joins the Anti-weirdness Ticket
Kamala Harris picks a no-drama Middle American.
Progressives Are Excited About Tim Walz. Should They Be?
The left is claiming him as one of its own, but Walz has broken with Democrats in the past.
Olympics Photo of the Day: Facing Forward, Looking Back
The team of artistic swimmers from France show their other faces.
Google Already Won
A landmark antitrust ruling will not change how people find information on the internet.
Climate Change Is Shifting the Planet’s Most Basic Properties
Humans have managed to slow the Earth’s spin and shift its axis.
Israel’s Disaster Foretold
The ICJ’s opinion on the West Bank is devastating, and it isn’t wrong.
It’s Walz
For Harris, the choice is a somewhat daring move against conventional wisdom.
Elite Athletes Could Be Less Single-Minded
Paying a little more attention to life outside of sports could benefit their mental health, during competition and after.
Five Tiny Pieces of Paper
That’s all it took for one artist to become a target for Vladimir Putin.
The Well-Off People Who Can’t Spend Money
Tightwads drag around a phantom limb of poverty, no matter what their bank account says.
This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s debut work of fiction captures the paradox of immigrant identity in the United States.
An American Pastime Fit for the Age of Anxiety
Many kids are too anxious to go to summer camp alone—and many parents are too stressed to let them. What if they went together?