With a little knowledge and practice of some specific techniques, you can grow the amount of gratitude in your emotional repertoire and get a lot happier year-round. Gratitude is so effective that if ...

Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable. First published in The Atlantic on December 1, 2025.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

When I was about 10, he started taking the family to a Berkeley revival house that played the great movies of my parents’ youth. I loved those nights; even though many of the movies confused me, I ...

But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ...

It is clear that solar geoengineering does nothing to address the causes of global warming, i.e. CO₂ emissions from the use ...

All of this might strike you as strange. Mother Nature tells you to do something that makes you miserable. And the more miserable you get, the more you do it. But Mother Nature simply doesn’t care ...

First published in The Atlantic on November 20, 2025.

Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

A month or so ago—you may remember—the political commentator Helen Andrews published an essay for Compact magazine titled “The Great Feminization,” arguing at length that the defenestration of Larry ...

Debono’s path to party planning happened, in her telling, because she was bored. The MAGA gatherings she’d attended were stuffy. So last year, she started throwing parties under the auspices of a new ...

Der Film über die Nonne, die später als Mutter Teresa bekannt werden wird, erzählt von der heiligen Unordnung im Herzen einer ...