An Important Moment for Telling America’s Story

Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display

America’s Currency Is the Global South’s Problem

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz

Sex Educators Say They're Being Harmed by Age Verification Laws

‘Yes, we can’: a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

Finding the Cattle Queen

Unraveling the Chemical Secrets of a Wholesome Plant-Pollinator Relationship

Is Economic Forecasting Still Possible?

Want to Fix New York City’s Budget? Get Education Spending Under Control

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

America’s War, America’s Recession

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

Telling “the Full Story” of George Washington

America’s New Age of Empire

Famous for telling writers to embrace their “shitty first drafts,” Bird by Bird is one of the most popular writing guides of all time. Is it any good?

America’s Annoyance Economy Is Growing

Moltbook: A social network for AI agents and possibly “The most important place on the internet right now”

Remembering Robert Trivers, arguably the most important evolutionary theorist since Darwin

Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of story 

Did Kamel Daoud steal his Goncourt-prize winning novel’s story? “I felt betrayed,” said a patient of his wife’s therapy practice