The Ultimate Happiness Diet
What we eat clearly has a bearing on our well-being. But the best recipe for success centers on how we eat.
Ketamine’s Catch-22
The drug has a hard-partying past—and a promising future in treating depression.
She’s Everything. He’s Just Doug.
Democrats try a new model of masculinity.
Barack Obama’s Warning to Democrats
“All of us,” he told his party’s convention, “across the political spectrum, seem quick to assume the worst in others unless they agree with us on every single issue.”
Silicon Valley Is Coming Out in Force Against an AI-Safety Bill
California State Senator Scott Wiener responds to his many critics.
The Truth About Celebrities and Politics
The Democrats and the Republicans both understand that fame is inextricable from American culture.
How Poetry Can Map Defiance
A conversation with the Diné poet Kinsale Drake about “Making a Monument Valley”
Emily in Paris Doesn’t Need a Makeover
Netflix’s silliest show is the epitome of guilty-pleasure viewing. It should probably stay that way.
Iceland’s Puffling Rescuers
Young people working to rescue lost young puffins in Iceland
The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop
Far-right influencers are flooding social media with a new kind of junk.
Republicans’ New, Dangerous Attempt to Break the Election
Even if the Supreme Court rejects this plea, the GOP will advance its cause of sowing doubt in the electoral process all the same.
Kamala Harris Settles the Biggest Fight in the Democratic Party
Since 2016, the party had been unable to decide on its best course forward.
What Gena Rowlands Knew About Marriage
The late actor mined the many contradictions of romantic love in her work, and never more brilliantly than in A Woman Under the Influence.
Could Donald Trump Break the Fed?
The former president wants to put an end to the central bank’s independence. If he’s elected in November, Republicans in Congress might let him.
Did God Save Donald Trump?
Many Americans believe the ex-president survived an assassination attempt because of divine intervention.
The New Law of Electoral Politics
Can Kamala Harris break the global incumbency curse?
Cape Cod Offers a Harbinger of America’s Economic Future
Spiraling housing prices in Provincetown are an extreme version of what’s happening in the U.S. as whole.
The Democrats Aren’t on the High Road Anymore
The party has changed during, or been changed by, the Trump years.
The DNC Is a Big Smiling Mess
The party is working out its differences. And that’s okay.
The Huge DNC Protest That Wasn’t
The pro-Palestinian “Crashing the Party” event was to the protests of Chicago 1968 what a scouting squad is to an army.