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

First published in The Atlantic on November 20, 2025.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Across the democratic world, the postwar era’s dominant parties face a populist insurgency.

Human brains were not meant to think about trillions of dollars. First published in The Atlantic on November 14, 2025.

The right preparation for a good night’s sleep is valuable for not only your physical health but your mental well-being too.

It shows up in songs, films, ads, social-media posts—but it says more about Americans’ idealization of youth than it does about what it actually feels like to be young today. The 2024 World Happiness ...

The institutional checks that got the country through Watergate are far weaker now. First published in The Atlantic on November 15, 2025.

66 Jahre nach dem Aus für die Straßenbahn in Lübeck liebäugeln Grüne und Linke mit deren Wiedereinführung. Doch die ...