Philosophers are studying Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?”
High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon
The Federal Reserve will give an announcement on interest rates during its May meeting Wednesday.…
Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit.
How La Niña will shape heat and hurricanes this year
Climate change and the outgoing El Niño will likely ignite more weather extremes.…
The Kristi Noem puppy-killing scandal, explained
Noem wanted to look decisive.…
Could bird flu cause a human pandemic?
Here’s what’s worrying experts right now about H5N1’s spread among dairy cows — and what isn’t.…
Why we keep seeing egg prices spike
How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.…
After decades of inaction, states are finally stepping up on housing
The affordability crisis is forcing politicians’ hands.…
Harvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyer
A public defender on the judge at the first Weinstein trial: “He was behaving like a prosecutor.”…
The AI grift that can literally poison you
When AI comes for mushroom foragers.…
The failed promise of egg freezing
The costly procedure was supposed to give women a new kind of freedom. Is that what it really offers?…
How anxiety became a catchall for every unpleasant emotion
Here’s how to understand the difference between everyday anxiety and an anxiety disorder.
When you run a therapy practice called the Center for Anxiety, as David H.…
Everything’s a cult now
Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy.
Is damn near everything a cult now?…
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars
Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.
Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous.…
We could be heading into the hottest summer of our lives
How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history
You need $500. How should you get it?
The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
A 2023 Federal Reserve survey found that a third of Americans say they don’t have the cash to cover a $500 emergency expense.…
So you’ve found research fraud. Now what?
Harvard dishonesty researcher Francesca Gino faked her research. But she still has a lot to teach us.…
How JoJo Siwa’s “rebrand” got so messy
Is the massive backlash against the former child star justified?…
Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech
The end of coral reefs as we know them
Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now it’s unfolding.
More than five years ago, the world’s top climate scientists made a frightening prediction: If the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius, relative to preindustrial times, 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs globally would die off.…
Is Fallout a warning for our future? A global catastrophe risk expert weighs in.
What a post-nuclear aftermath could really look like.
Between the crumbling of trust in our institutions and escalating global conflict, dystopia feels deeply familiar in today’s world.…
Canada’s polite Trumpism
The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa.…
Mass graves at two hospitals are the latest horrors from Gaza
The wild past 24 hours of Trump legal news, explained
Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today
It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter.…
Bird flu in milk is alarming — but not for the reason you think
The US Department of Agriculture’s failed response to bird flu in cows, explained.…
Lawmakers are overreacting to crime
Crime rates are falling.…
How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar
We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized
Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked.…