Summary: Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving.
Summary: The furor over the painting points to the Crown’s larger problems.
That's weird
Summary: A Texas man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 was pardoned yesterday. Here’s what it says about politics in 2024.
Summary: New footage seems to confirm some details of his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, as other cases against the rapper continue.
Summary: Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding?
Summary: Nobody wants to be filmed without their knowledge. Why does it make up so much of the content we watch?
No, that's weird
Summary: Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us.
Summary: The spiritual possibilities of alien encounters.
Interesting
Summary: More animals can occasionally reproduce asexually than scientists realized.
Summary: Everybody’s in LA’s week-long stint is over. It still might point toward the streamer’s future — and the comedian’s.
Summary: Israel and Hezbollah are trying to keep their fighting contained. But the conflict keeps escalating.
Interesting
Summary: For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked.
Summary: You can have healthy disagreements with the people in your life.
Summary: New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.
Summary: If a wealthy, advanced economy is having a hard time getting off coal, what does it mean for the rest of the world?
Summary: What we learned from Daniels’s testimony.
Summary: We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up discovering something much bigger.
Summary: International impunity helped allow a power struggle in Sudan to spiral into ethnic violence.
Summary: "Hind’s Hall" was electrifying because it was so unexpected.
Summary: Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence.
Summary: Allegations of a "toxic work environment" have once again tarnished the pageant’s reputation.
Summary: Plus, lessons worth learning about financial literacy.
Summary: In times of economic uncertainty, small luxuries reign supreme.
Summary: A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.
Summary: From hit movies to viral essays, the discourse is rarely about the people inside the relationships.
Summary: There are already legal challenges to the new policy, but authorities detained some migrants this week.
Summary: Think twice before throwing out your leftovers.
Summary: The US and Saudi Arabia say they’re close to a historic mega-deal. There’s just one problem.
Summary: Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead.
Summary: Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ban on cell-cultivated, "lab-grown" meat is about protecting Big Ag.
Summary: The Federal Reserve will give an announcement on interest rates during its May meeting Wednesday.
Summary: Last year, Detroit saw its fewest homicides since 1966. Here’s how it did it — and how other cities can do the same.
Summary: The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained.
Summary: Climate change and the outgoing El Niño will likely ignite more weather extremes.
Summary: A potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses.
Summary: In which philosophy tries to understand how normal people think about morality.
Summary: The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
Summary: Is the massive backlash against the former child star justified?
Summary: The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa.
Summary: What a post-nuclear aftermath could really look like.
Summary: Harvard dishonesty researcher Francesca Gino faked her research. But she still has a lot to teach us.
Summary: High temperatures across the US have the potential to increase risks for drought, wildfires, and hurricanes.
Summary: Amid delivery discourse, a new report claims to shed some light on DoorDash’s delivery fees.
Summary: Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century.
Summary: Carlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel.
Summary: Bluey opened up my imagination and made the most boring part of parenting fun.
Summary: Jennifer Pan allegedly hired hitmen to kill her parents in 2010. But the case is in limbo.
Summary: It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.
Summary: How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.
Summary: The WNBA draft puts pro basketball’s longstanding pay gap on stark display.
Summary: Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.
Summary: The government is slated to sue Ticketmaster’s parent company.
Summary: Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable.
Summary: All signs point to ISIS in a terrorist attack that killed over 130 people near Moscow, but Vladimir Putin is connecting it to the war in Ukraine.
Summary: A century of history of Black country music, explained by Alice Randall.
Summary: The Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s.
Summary: What the debate over the fertility industry misses
Summary: Why a really great word game makes you feel smart, and also stupid.
Summary: It’s not just the Princess of Wales. More and more young people are getting cancer.
Summary: And Diana, too.
Interesting
Summary: This will be the last total solar eclipse over the contiguous United States for 21 years. Don’t miss it!
Can't wait!
Summary: The most exciting player in college basketball, explained.
Summary: Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China.
Summary: Netflix’s new adaptation of Liu Cixin’s famous sci-fi series shows us what quantum mechanics might look like in real time.
Summary: There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.
Summary: From baseball to March Madness, how gambling is ruining sports.
Summary: The more we learn about Francesca Gino’s lawsuit, the more problems arise.
Summary: It is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion.
Summary: It’s a lot sooner than you think.
Summary: Why we find ourselves on the precipice again and again … and again.
Summary: There were more abortions in 2023 than in any year since 2011.
Summary: What the National Association of Realtors settlement means for buyers and sellers.
Summary: Pilates, a xylophone, and a wedding from hell.
Summary: Author Rhaina Cohen on what we can learn from people who choose a friend as a life partner.
Summary: By inhibiting drug development, economic growth, and military recruitment, as well as driving doctors away from the places they’re needed most, bans almost certainly harm you — yes, you.
Summary: Reddit could become the next meme stock — or flop.
Summary: The Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.
Summary: The most popular YouTuber in the world is going Hollywood.
Summary: What the UN is missing with its plan to save the seas
Summary: Sports betting is about the odds, but sports books decide whether the odds are fair.
Summary: Putin has eliminated all of his most significant rivals, cementing his grip on power.
Summary: A new study highlights why accurate medical data matters so much.
Summary: Don’t move in with your significant other without discussing these things first.
Summary: Reality stars are suing Bravo (and each other) while wrestling with their own reality.
Summary: Voters who skipped the midterms are different.
Summary: We’ve been trained to think of the royal family as a machine. Kategate upended that narrative.
Summary: This is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge.
Summary: What is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from? And more!
Summary: From wound healing to disease diagnosis, "this stuff is like gold dust."
Summary: The climate change scenario that could chill parts of the world, explained.
Summary: A door plug falling mid-flight has renewed scrutiny of air travel and of Boeing’s planes.
Summary: The House passed a bill to ban TikTok on Wednesday. But it’s not over yet.
Summary: Biden is not "waging war" on American energy. He’s boosting it.
Summary: A trans teen is dead. The state he lived in made his life as hard as possible.
Summary: Is measles making a US comeback? Here’s what you need to know.
Summary: How gang violence pushed out Ariel Henry — and what allowed it to fester.
Summary: All the reasons the doctored image doesn’t make sense, and the absurd reason it does.
Summary: A second Trump presidency is likely to bring more austerity than the first one did.
Summary: Should you hire someone to help? What’s your filing status? And more questions on US taxes, answered.
Summary: Texas Republicans are trying to rewrite the Constitution — and this Supreme Court could let them.
Summary: The gaps between perception of the economy and the reality, explained.
Summary: As the National Guard heads into subways, new research examines how the city is faring with gun violence.
Summary: Counteracting the Andrew Tate effect isn’t just the purview of parents and teachers.
Summary: Like in the US, the right is driving and capitalizing on fears about immigration.
Summary: The offscreen drama of the Netflix reality hit, from Jeramey to Trevor, explained.
Summary: Survey sites recruit respondents with the promise of a reward, which may lead to bogus answers. That doesn’t mean the data is unusable.
Summary: GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic turn down the dial on our loudest desires — seemingly for more than just food.
Summary: The company you might not have heard of is now worth $2 trillion — more than Google or Amazon.
Summary: The fertility treatment that gives people hope, explained in a comic.
Summary: The battle proves that time is political, any way you cut it.
Summary: The UN report gives clarity, not answers.
Summary: The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle is the state’s largest blaze on record.
Summary: The competing narratives about a deadly aid distribution in Gaza, explained.
Summary: The good, the bad, and the Bene Gesserit of Dune: Part Two.
Summary: A superfan explains Dune: Part 2 for newbies in less than 1,000 words.
Summary: The US knows how to resettle refugees. Why can’t it figure out what to do with the current wave of migrants?
Summary: Faked cancer data is the latest sign of science’s fraud problem.
Summary: The Princess hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas.
Summary: Reckless speeding is epidemic in the US. This simple technology could save tens of thousands of lives.
Summary: Most of the justices appeared uncomfortable with "bump stocks," devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire automatically.
Summary: How artificial intelligence hides in plain sight.
Summary: There are 365.2422 days for every Earth orbit around the sun. Annoying!
Summary: Everything you need to know about this year’s Academy Awards.
Summary: Yale and Dartmouth are bringing testing back — but thousands of other schools aren’t.
Summary: How Sarah J. Maas became romantasy’s reigning queen.
Summary: Irish men are having a moment in Hollywood.
Summary: 2024 is already shattering heat records as temperatures soar around the world.
Summary: From choosing the right therapist to figuring out how to pay.
Summary: The Gemini image generator isn’t just suffering from a technical problem, but from a philosophical one.
Summary: There’s a stalemate over stopping future pandemics — and it comes down to money.
Summary: Biden’s support for Israel’s military campaign is testing Arab American voters’ loyalty in Michigan and beyond.
Summary: The groundbreaking development speaks to the growing role of private companies in space.
Summary: If you want to know the future of OpenAI’s latest tool, take a look at Midjourney and DALL-E 2.
Summary: Stimulants, hustle culture, and bodybuilding are shaping young men’s drift to the right.
Summary: Netanyahu’s plan is wildly disconnected from US priorities — and reality.
Summary: It proves how effortlessly the comedy industry forgives racism.
Summary: It will be hard to convince the president that he isn’t the best of his party’s bad options.
Summary: The movement to treat embryos as full-fledged people is taking a victory lap.
Summary: The hugely anticipated remake delivers on the drama, charm, and spectacle of the original.
There's still no way it can be better than the original series.
Summary: "There’s nothing inherently wrong with Black people. There is something very, very wrong with the systems that we are forced to live under or within."
Summary: OpenAI’s Sora is designed to be a "world simulator." Right now it’s having trouble breaking a glass.
Summary: Two simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why aren’t we using them?
Summary: The internet loves Kim Kardashian’s shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more.
Summary: What Ukraine’s biggest setback in months tells us about the future of the war.
Summary: During the pandemic, distracted driving increased, and it hasn’t gone down since.
Summary: AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts.
Summary: They could break the GOP’s longstanding gerrymandered grip on the state legislature.
Summary: Yulia Navalnaya picks up her husband’s battle against Putin.
Summary: Can new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds?
Summary: Did Alabama’s Supreme Court just ban IVF treatments?
Summary: The US vetoed another Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Tuesday and proposed a different one.
Summary: You’re paying a lot more for car insurance than you were in 2020. Here’s why.
Summary: The revolutionary left’s theory of the climate crisis puts ideology above inconvenient truths.
Summary: In the conversation about open marriages and polyamory, America’s sexual anxieties are on full display.
Summary: The host’s return to The Daily Show is a coda to a golden age.
Summary: Navalny’s death is the end of an era for Russia — and cements Putin’s grip on power.
Summary: What seasonal affective disorder can tell us about ourselves.
Summary: What True Detective’s fourth season gets wrong about True Detective.
Summary: In this house, we believe that high rents fuel nativist backlashes.
Summary: Art is for everyone. Here’s how to approach your next trip to a gallery or museum.
Summary: Plus, a suggestion for what to do if you come into a windfall.
Summary: Garland v. Cargill asks whether gun makers can evade the ban on machine guns with a device called a bump stock.
Summary: Why "He Gets Us" doesn’t get us.
Summary: How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space
Summary: Israel’s raid on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis might break international humanitarian law.
Summary: The star of Madame Web is a charming terror.
Summary: A new state bill aims to protect us from the most powerful and dangerous AI models.
Summary: You can find the hottest accessory of the season at CVS.
Summary: Adversaries keep chipping away at America’s military credibility. Trump isn’t helping.
Summary: Voices from a besieged Rafah.
Summary: Car crashes are killing too many young Africans like Kelvin Kiptum.
Summary: Trump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever.
Summary: Everything is riding on what Israel does next in Rafah, Gaza.
Summary: Opioid addiction doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to, but the crisis is as bad as ever. It doesn’t have to be.
Summary: Inflation is cooling, but food companies keep raising prices.
Summary: Even if voters or the establishment wanted to, there really isn’t a viable process to replace Biden as the nominee.
Summary: The Protestant work ethic hijacked America. It’s time for a new pro-worker ethos.
Summary: Forming a healthy relationship with regret means learning to look it in the face.
Summary: Record numbers of people crossed the US border last year. Here’s a guide to understanding what’s happening.
Summary: A major military shake-up comes amid a fight in Congress over US funding for Ukraine.
Summary: Gird your curds! Say a prayer for Camembert! A collapse in microbe diversity puts these French cheeses at risk.
Summary: Britney was too out of control. Taylor is too in control. What now?
Summary: Put some respect on Usher’s name.
Summary: An extra-super Super Bowl is in store.
Summary: The Court’s GOP-appointed majority is very likely to rule for Trump. But it also matters how they rule for Trump.
Summary: How to act in service of the planet — and your values.
Summary: Trump’s Supreme Court lawyer was a disaster, and it won’t matter one bit.
Summary: Pakistan’s military drives its politics. And Pakistanis lose.
Summary: In two decades the behemoth social media platform has made a lot of money and brought in a lot of users — and made life worse for a lot of people.
Summary: Congressional inaction has created a broken immigration system. But cities can do more for migrants, too.
Summary: The investigator said Biden presented as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" — a political gift to Trump and the GOP.
Summary: The platform has seen a bizarre (and annoying) explosion of language as creators rush to coin terms.
Summary: Humans are literally changing the color of the planet. Scientists are worried.
Summary: A fully funded IRS would bring in twice as much money as they previously thought, a Treasury report finds.
Summary: Espionage and murder aren’t as risky as love and commitment.
Summary: A law professor proposes an old-fashioned remedy for very new problems: legal liability.
Summary: What we mean when we say there’s a border crisis.
Summary: The GOP tried to use impeachment as a political distraction — and only embarrassed themselves.
Summary: It’s hard to imagine this Supreme Court removing Trump from the ballot. But his lawyers gave the justices very little to work with.
Summary: The Israel-Hamas war has shaken up the Middle East. Who’s on whose side?
Summary: Back-to-back atmospheric rivers have triggered floods, snowstorms, and power outages in the Golden State.
Summary: The pharmaceutical supply chain is broken, but if you’re facing a drug shortage, you have more power than you think.
Summary: The justices had their shot to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. Now they need to stop delaying his criminal trial.
Summary: They’re emblematic of how the awards have failed Black artists.
Summary: Record arms exports are a sign of America’s commitment to Europe — and its foreign policy failures during the war in Ukraine.
Summary: What the quest for four major awards tells us about Hollywood, celebrity egos, and ourselves.
Summary: Nevada’s dueling primary and caucuses are wreaking avoidable chaos.
Summary: A new solution to save the iconic Joshua tree uses a distant relative of one of the Mojave’s ancient seed distributors: The camel.
Summary: Wendy Williams’s rise, reputation, and absence from her talk show, explained.
Summary: The guy behind the Harvard lawsuit attacking affirmative action turns his ire on the service academies.
Summary: Consumers are probably safe, but that doesn’t mean lead-laden cups are a good idea.
Summary: Farmers’ frustration over French and EU regulations are a new dimension in a longstanding problem.
Summary: Nine experts weigh in on curbing and diffusing your overly negative thoughts.
Summary: The voters who could decide 2024 are a complicated bunch.
Summary: Why the US and other major donors are pausing funding for Gaza.
Summary: Today, Explained digs into the stigma associated with prostate cancer diagnosis like Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s, and the fear many men have of the exam itself.
Summary: So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
Summary: Swift represents a constituency they’re losing big time: Young women.
Summary: In the 21st century, famine isn’t inevitable. It’s a policy choice.
Summary: Apple’s mixed reality headset heralds a new era of "spatial computing." We are not ready.
Summary: It could still happen — but the four prosecutions of Trump have been beset by delays and challenges.
Summary: A brief history of the right’s long-running battle against higher education.
Summary: It’s good news for bat-haters and bad news for everyone else.
Summary: Republicans blame Democrats for DC’s rising violent crime. The reality is much more complicated.
Summary: The author of Such a Fun Age returns with a hit-and-miss sophomore effort, tracing lines of power with money.
Summary: Scientists have never seen a newborn great white shark ... until (maybe) now.
Summary: So, Biden paused LNG exports. Does this … fix climate change?
Summary: Everyzyng you wanted to know about Zyn, in six questions.
Summary: The no good, very bad case against malaria bednets, explained.
Summary: Americans are feeling better about the economy, yet the president’s approval rating is lower than ever.
Summary: Why the "long peace" may be ending.
Summary: The state is using a new untested method that has prompted backlash.
Summary: The lifesaving revolution in widespread medical testing for infants.
Summary: Even without a ceasefire, the top UN court’s orders are a warning to Israel.
Summary: What we’re really fighting about when we fight about Barbie.
Summary: On the high seas, it’s content creators versus the other passengers.
Summary: In the next month or so, millions of GOP voters would need to rethink their loyalty to Trump and perhaps their life choices.
Summary: The Fifth Circuit has spent years harassing a civil rights activist, and they gutted much of the First Amendment in the process.
Summary: What the Reality Von Tease bombshell on SLC means for Bravo.
Summary: Donald Trump’s victory cemented his status as the all-but-certain GOP nominee, but is that good news for Joe Biden?
Summary: Stray cats harm wildlife. Should we kill them?
Summary: With foreign aid increasingly uncertain, Africa wants to tackle disease emergencies on its own.
Summary: Don’t let climate doom win.
Summary: By a bare 5-4 majority, the Supreme Court reaffirms that federal law still applies to Texas.
Summary: American energy needs are changing. So far, the US power grid has been able to keep you warm.
Summary: Trump has more extreme plans for democracy and the power of the presidency. But on foreign policy, things get more complicated.
Summary: Cicadas will hear the call of spring. And then you’ll hear their mating calls, too.
Summary: The patriarchy is riding high for the 2024 Oscars — but not Charles Melton or the boys of Saltburn.
Summary: The Argylle authorship controversy, explained.
Summary: A ‘day in the life’ at the end of a life
Summary: The great billionaire wealth transfer means people born very, very rich are going to stay very, very rich.
Summary: She’s a down-the-line conservative on almost every issue — except for one really important one.
Summary: While far-right Republicans make it hard to keep the government running, others in their party have been reaching constructive legislative compromises.
Summary: Why is Donald Trump so fixated on birthright citizenship?
Summary: Spend some time with your inner monologue (and actually enjoy it).
Summary: And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him.
Summary: Iran’s complicated calculus in attacking Pakistan.
Summary: Congress’s interminable shutdown cycle, explained.
Summary: And the adventures scientists go on to better understand our enigmatic seas.
Summary: Season 2 of the Peacock series has some of the worst people you know fail a whodunit.
Summary: The 2024 election season may be defined by Trump’s legal troubles.
Summary: The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained.
Summary: You don’t just vote for Trump. You stan him.
Summary: Yes, it’s freezing now. But winters are actually warming dangerously fast.
Summary: For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth.
Summary: The pollsters got Iowa spot on. That means trouble for Trump’s rivals.
Summary: Climate change and other human impacts are turning some animals nocturnal.
Summary: Monsters lurk in the background of James Webb Space Telescope images. Scientists are scrambling to make sense of them.
Summary: Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?
Summary: Dean Phillips is trying to crash Joe Biden’s party. He picked a strange, strange place to start.
Summary: From rap to the silver screen, it’s (still) 50 Cent’s world.
Summary: Trump’s rivals missed an opportunity to shake up the race. They’ll get another one in New Hampshire.
Summary: None of the GOP candidates got what they wanted — except for Donald Trump.
Summary: Suicides are up among Black adolescents. Sherry Molock, a clinical psychologist and ordained minister, believes Black churches could be their salvation.
Summary: DeSantis’s campaign appealed to a particular kind of conservative elite — and not many others.
Summary: The aggrieved billionaire is gunning for Harvard, Business Insider, and anyone who talks about his wife.
Summary: How plagiarism became the latest weapon in the culture wars.
Summary: It’s a small state that can make a massive impact on the political world. Here’s how that happens.
Summary: Covid politicized public health. Now, the US might give up on saving millions of lives.
Summary: The deep roots of Trump’s staying power.
Summary: "Who wins" isn’t as simple as who comes in first. Here’s what Trump, DeSantis, and Haley each need.
Summary: What a plant-based diet can and cannot do for you, explained by Netflix’s You Are What You Eat.
Summary: The Color Purple and Mean Girls make the trip from the silver screen to the stage and back.
Summary: Biden wants to restrict commercial logging in old-growth forests. Could that make wildfires worse?
Summary: If a spate of surveys over the last four months are to be believed, young voters aren’t just dissatisfied with Joe Biden — they’re switching to supporting Donald Trump.
Summary: Aaron Rodgers, explained for sports fans and non-sports fans alike.
Summary: It’s an escalation in the region, but we’re not actually headed to outright war with Iran.
Summary: An Oregon case will clarify whether officials can jail or fine homeless people for sleeping outside.
Summary: A monthlong break from drinking was just the beginning for me.
Summary: Taraji P. Henson spoke out about issues on set — but the internet blamed Oprah.
Summary: Will OpenAI’s new chatbot store finally make AI useful?
Summary: Why economists are reconsidering the scale of the rise in US inequality.
Summary: Trump says he’d be better for the economy. Voters do, too. But would he?
Summary: Ecuador was known for peace, but it has become one of the most violent countries in South America.
Summary: The history of the Iowa caucuses (and their downfall?), briefly explained.
Summary: The very confusing landscape of advanced AI risk, briefly explained.
Summary: The Stanley brand is selling more than a tumbler.
Summary: The justices are threatening to put themselves in charge of every single federal agency. They should resist that temptation.
Summary: TikTok is full of millennial gray, competitive hygiene, and bleach. It stinks!
Summary: It’s called "Calendargate," and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on "wokeness" is really for.
Summary: Even socialists are bristling at the rising cost of fast food.
Summary: It sounds too good to be true, but there’s serious science behind the hypothesis.
Summary: She’s emerged as anti-Trump Republicans’ best (and only) hope to take him down.
Summary: Getting into running — even as a complete beginner — is easier than you think.
Summary: The Yemen-based, Iran-backed group hasn’t been fazed by a US-led response.
Summary: It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway.
Summary: Next week’s presidential contest comes down to one issue: China.
Summary: Iraq’s prime minister called for an end to US presence after a drone strike killed a senior militia leader.
Summary: Leave Gypsy alone!
Summary: How to prevent and treat colds, the flu, Covid-19, and more.
Summary: The world had "flying cars" in the 1930s. We could be getting them again.
Summary: Detroit may put the land-value tax to the test
Summary: This year’s Golden Globes boasts new faces, new voters, new categories, and a new network. Is it enough?
Summary: What the tranche of recently unsealed court documents contain.
Summary: Harvard’s former president is just one target in the conservative uproar over higher education.
Summary: Timing light exposure right helps combat seasonal depression.
Summary: The Court blocked a lower court order enforcing a federal law that protects patients who require medically necessary abortions.
Summary: Solving the congenital syphilis crisis means investing in rural maternity care.
Summary: The Court was acting to protect Israeli democracy. But it may also have sowed the seeds of a future crisis.
Summary: The Constitution has a right to defend itself, but Trump also has a right to due process.
Summary: The Trumpiest court in America just tried to neutralize a federal law requiring most hospitals to provide medically necessary abortions.
Summary: How to actually improve your life, one small change at a time.
Summary: Don’t focus on aesthetics — fitness is a feel-good ritual.
Summary: Friday’s action reflects South Africa’s solidarity with the Palestinian cause — and its domestic and foreign interests
Summary: What does Broadway look like after Sondheim? A lot like how it looked before.
Summary: From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team.
Summary: Here’s how to interpret your own feelings.
Summary: The insidious way violence is changing American politics — and shaping the 2024 election.
Summary: Medications can help the 1 in 12 people who suffer from alcohol use disorder. But most will never be treated.
Summary: America rarely has its financial ducks in a row. Does it finally matter?
Summary: Should Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would "change the character of the war."
Summary: Good God, give this US agency a few more dollars to stop a mass extinction.
Summary: Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil.
Summary: What supply-side liberals can learn from the past
Summary: For these families, the last few years’ economic tumult has been particularly pronounced.
Summary: To understand the anarcho-capitalist leader, you have to understand Argentina’s past.
Summary: Democracy is a culture — and Trump is destroying it.
Summary: Meat production is making lifesaving drugs less effective. Where’s the FDA?
Summary: The mixed messages kids get about meat — and how we should think about them — explained by the Chicken Run movies.
Summary: How the new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop.
Summary: A simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated debate about antisemitism and free speech.
Summary: Tim Burton’s superhero classic is Christmas rom-com you don’t realize is a Christmas movie or a rom-com.
Summary: Quantifying the "complexity" of consciousness can tell us how rich our experiences are.
Summary: The White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security.
Summary: The Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever.
Summary: The justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions.
Summary: Climate activist Bill McKibben on how to make sense of COP28: "Let’s make that concession hurt."
Summary: Doctor Who has to learn to let go of David Tennant.
Summary: Savings won’t save the economy for much longer, but higher wages might.
Summary: Starbucks’s messy December, explained.
Summary: Was COP28 the beginning of the end of fossil fuels? Kinda.
Summary: Jeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire.
Summary: Maybe your cat loves you. Maybe it would kill you if it could.
Summary: Spolier: Cows.
Summary: Do therapists have a right to tell patients to "pray away the gay"? The Court is leaving that question open.
Summary: From farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted.
Summary: Because your big day should still feel like you.
Summary: Cyclone Freddy destroyed the small East African country. Targeted reparations can alleviate poverty and help communities recover.
Summary: For many Jews, the October 7 attacks discredited both the Zionist right and the anti-Zionist left — paving the way for the resurrection of a seemingly dead political tradition.
Summary: Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins a growing number of lawmakers who are eyeing the exits.
Summary: What prosecutors are alleging — and what it means for the larger political battle over the president’s son.
Summary: With dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in "the Middle East’s only democracy."
Summary: Stone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers.
Summary: There’s an elegiac sense of magic to Studio Ghibli’s latest film.
Summary: The expelled rep used his time in Congress like a Real Housewife, and now he’s found his true calling making bank on Cameo.
Summary: The mixed messages kids get about meat — and how we should think about them — explained by the Chicken Run movies.
Summary: Increasingly, civilians are running out of safe places to go.
Summary: A YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content.
Summary: The iconic Palestinian scarf started out as a practical garment. It became an emblem of an aspiring nation.
Summary: The factors that lead to tragedies like the University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law.
Summary: Charting America’s homeownership problem.
Summary: A Haley-Christie alliance emerged. But it’s a long way away from threatening Trump.
Summary: Netflix struggled for years to land a mainstream anime hit. Enter Blue Eye Samurai.
Summary: You can say no to the tipping tablet. That doesn’t mean you should.
Summary: Artists are protesting Israel’s offensive. The art and literary worlds are struggling to respond.
Summary: A federal law requires most hospitals to perform emergency abortions. The question is whether a Republican Supreme Court will enforce it.
Summary: The concert documentary shows some people still try to say no to Beyoncé! Weird!
Summary: The head of COP28 is facing widespread backlash for his comments on fossil fuels.
Summary: The evolution of a viral term, according to the "Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk" guy.
Summary: It’s part of Putin’s strategy to paint himself as Russia’s protector against Western immorality.
Summary: Even this very conservative Court appears reluctant to blow up the federal government’s power to tax rich people.
Summary: On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there.
Summary: With the world focused on Gaza, Israeli settlers and soldiers are increasing attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Summary: Self-described "dating experts" on TikTok are pushing advice that’s both regressive and depressing.
Summary: You don’t need to be good at a hobby to enjoy it.
Summary: Whales and dolphins are smart, social, and thrive in the open sea. Why do we force them to live in tiny pools?
Summary: To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?
Summary: What’s behind the politics shift in the United States around Israel and Palestine — and how it might affect the 2024 presidential race.
Summary: Oops, they did it again (weaponized the desperation of the proletariat for fun).
Summary: Money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time.
Summary: Everything seems profound on psychedelics. Scientists are starting to ask why.
Summary: A prominent Republican strategist is trying to convince the world that voters of color are shifting to the GOP. Is he overselling it?
Summary: Why there should be more collaboration in cellular agriculture.
Summary: Matt Rife’s one comedy rule: Be funny. The problem: He isn’t.
Summary: Ukraine is staring down a massive humanitarian challenge — now and into the future.
Summary: Nikki Haley has no shot. Why can’t the GOP billionaire class see that?
Summary: Meat and dairy are driving the climate crisis. Why won’t world leaders at COP28 do anything about it?
Summary: The Bonaparte marriage, not quite explained by Ridley Scott’s new movie.
Summary: One of America’s most important statesmen gave the world a series of diplomatic breakthroughs, and hundreds of thousands of bodies.
Summary: 3 Palestinian short films available on Netflix show life under occupation.
Summary: The application for getting federal financial aid has changed for 2024-2025. Here’s how to fill it out.
Summary: A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.
Summary: Here’s how the Future Perfect team determined the 2023 cohort of up-and-coming and unsung thought leaders.
Summary: Why the scandal-plagued Congress member could get expelled from the House this time.
Summary: How the small structures have ignited hopes and fears for those living outside.
Summary: The thinkers, activists, and scholars working on solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems.
Summary: At the very moment the Supreme Court appears to be moderating on voting rights, GOP judges are going after America’s most important voting rights law.
Summary: Authorities are investigating whether the shooting was a potential hate crime.
Summary: Monday’s extension is good news for anyone concerned about the humanitarian situation, but the bigger questions about the future of the war remain.
Summary: Regular giving, even in small amounts, can save lives.
Summary: 2023 may overshoot the Paris Agreement target of 1.5C for the first time. How will that impact climate negotiations?
Summary: The controversial concepts shaping climate action, defined.
Summary: A SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could lead to chaos for the federal government’s finances.
Summary: A thoroughly modern nuisance for consumers, shippers, and retailers alike.
Summary: The thirst for attention is real.
Summary: Is he blowing it? Will he bounce back? Or something in between?
Summary: These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.
Summary: "From the river to the sea" demands conversations about the future of Israel and Palestine.
Summary: Ten states have uninsured rates below 5 percent. What are they doing right?
Summary: Intergenerational friendships make your life richer. Here’s how to cultivate them.
Summary: If you want to do good this Giving Tuesday, it’s probably a good idea to donate regularly.
Summary: We still don’t know how to talk about Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau.
Summary: Mud can be surprisingly clear.
Summary: A surprise offensive on October 27 stunned the junta. A revolution could build a new Myanmar.
Summary: There are so many ways to make a difference, even when your time is tight.
Summary: 9 questions about OpenAI’s wild weekend, answered.
Summary: Few things are actually scarce on the internet — but marketers don’t want you to know that.
Summary: It’s a good time to be a worker and a bad time to be a consumer — the problem is most people are both.
Summary: Startups are selling grief tech, ghostbots, and the end of mourning as we know it.
Summary: In his new book, Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky argues that free will is a myth.
Summary: A conversation with a Ukrainian journalist who documented the siege of Mariupol.
Summary: The "unitary executive" is back, and it could supercharge Trump’s plans to fill the government with his own loyalists.
Summary: Apple is adopting Google’s texting standard, but blue bubble elitism will probably continue.
Summary: The Hunger Games prequel finds a new wrinkle in a story we thought we knew.
Summary: The Netflix hit faced backlash for being too fictional. Season 6 doubles down.
Summary: Bird flu is surging again. We failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price.
Summary: How to stop checking on your ex — and everyone else you love to hate — on social media.
Summary: Patrick Dempsey and TikToker Addison Rae star in an overbaked entry into the holiday horror genre.
Summary: What good is a miraculous vaccine if nobody wants to take it?
Summary: Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.
Summary: The 6’5" star of Priscilla, Saltburn, and Euphoria rejects toxic masculinity, even when he plays it so well.
Summary: The hive mind of the internet is good, for once.
Summary: What we learned (and didn’t learn) from the big Google antitrust trial.
Summary: Lawmakers are on track to approve a spending bill that keeps the government open — and sets up a fight in 2024.
Summary: We read all of the 2023 nominees. Here’s what we thought.
Summary: A comprehensive guide to the basics of the world’s most controversial conflict.
Summary: Congress is closer to giving cash to the poorest kids than you think.
Summary: What to expect from Biden and Xi’s San Francisco meetup.
Summary: Gaza’s largest hospital was raided by the IDF. Others are struggling to stay open.
Summary: The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing.
Summary: The GOP field is growing slightly less crowded as Trump maintains his dominance.
Summary: I learned the hard way I couldn’t shop my way to a new self.
Summary: Escaping Twin Flames shows how a self-styled guru turned soul mates into a dangerous form of coercive control.
Summary: How and why to stop shopping for more than you need — or even want.
Summary: Extend the life of your favorite clothes, furniture, and appliances with simple fixes.
Summary: He’s talking like a fascist. He’s planning fascist policies. He’s staffing up with fascists.
Summary: No part of the country is unscathed from climate change, according to the federal government’s new National Climate Assessment.
Summary: Influencers will never influence us to buy less stuff. It’s antithetical to the job.
Summary: Raising kids in our modern consumer culture is challenging. These tips can help.
Summary: It isn’t classist to say that Americans do not need hauls of dozens of garments.
Summary: From 2020: There are technically many ways to make yams — but for many people, theirs is the only right one.
Summary: In a time when loneliness is more pervasive than ever, why not extend an invitation?
Summary: Republicans don’t seem to know how to stop bleeding support from the suburbs.
Summary: Renegotiating your holiday traditions should be a group effort.
Summary: Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important.
Summary: Civilians continue to flee south as fighting around hospitals increases.
Summary: What we talk about when we talk about genocide.
Summary: The Fifth Circuit decided to obey the law, for a change.
Summary: Financially, the sharing economy darling is thriving, but guests, hosts, and cities have had enough.
Summary: From Pain Hustlers to Dopesick to The Fall of the House of Usher, filmmakers are fascinated by the epidemic. But what are they saying?
Summary: What goes up may not come down. Like, ever.
Summary: Elisabeth Bik has made a career of being a data vigilante. What should mainstream scientific journals learn from her?
Summary: While attention is rightly focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, millions elsewhere are suffering — and the world doesn’t seem to care.
Summary: Democrats had a good night. So did abortion rights. Glenn Youngkin, not so much.
Summary: The anti-abortion movement went all in last night. They lost decisively.
Summary: Everything has to go right for Democrats to win in Mississippi.
Summary: Antisemitic incidents are on the rise in France, Germany, and the UK.
Summary: What to know about the new collaboration between Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone.
Summary: Rare arms control talks come ahead of an anticipated summit this month between Biden and Xi.
Summary: Voters in Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky will shape reproductive health care in their states — and provide a preview of 2024.
Summary: And why brutalism dominates US college campuses.
Summary: Three reasons Democrats are serious contenders in some Trump-country elections this year.
Summary: Reason and basic human decency seemed to prevail at the Supreme Court’s big argument about whether domestic abusers should be armed.
Summary: Sorry, the beloved chef’s use of gas cooking was a gas industry sponcon.
Summary: More American adults than ever say they likely won’t have kids, although we’re still a minority.
Summary: What history can — and can’t — tell us about the hope for a Gaza ceasefire.
Summary: For Indigenous people, there are few simple feelings about Scorsese’s take on the Reign of Terror.
Summary: A First Amendment lawyer argues the university’s role in a crisis should be shutting up.
Summary: Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas but haven’t opened new fronts.
Summary: Multiple hospitals have closed due to airstrikes and lack of fuel. Others are struggling to stay open.
Summary: Democrats need to be smarter while the GOP controls the Supreme Court.
Summary: Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
Summary: The justices appear to have no idea when they should get involved with online disputes between government officials and their constituents.
Summary: More than 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas. Here’s what we know.
Summary: Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades.
Summary: Hawai‘i education officials want to return to normal. But some parents want more time to heal.
Summary: Why green cities might not be the panacea we think they are.
Summary: Retailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it.
Summary: Silencing criticism makes it harder for Israel’s leaders to think clearly.
Summary: Real-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway.
Summary: A recent poll shows high support for a ground invasion in Gaza but dismal numbers for the prime minister.
Summary: Your parents or other loved ones could need you one day. Here’s how to get ready.
Summary: Millennials are facing an elder care crisis nobody prepared them for.
Summary: Four not-so-scary steps to take to give yourself peace of mind.
Summary: The final scenes of Martin Scorsese’s recent films are part of a larger project.
Summary: World Bank veteran Masood Ahmed explains why the 80-year-old lender should make a comeback, fueling the green transition.
Summary: The justices are seriously considering whether domestic abusers have a right to own a gun.
Summary: Once a year, the absurdities of our health care system are laid bare for everyone to see.
Summary: Martin Scorsese knows that who gets to tell the story matters as much the story that gets told.
Summary: How the mainstream left is trying to save its approach to Israel from the pro-Hamas fringe.
Summary: Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.
Summary: It took six countries, 18 years, and a litany of lies, but Natalee Holloway and Stephany Ramirez both have justice.
Summary: Jim Jordan lost. Now the party is searching for new speaker candidates.
Summary: Some human rights groups have reached this conclusion based on how the crime is defined in international law.
Summary: Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
Summary: Will the "Never Jordan" bloc cave? Will there be a bipartisan deal? Or ... what?
Summary: With at least 199 being held in Gaza, the country has never faced a situation like this before.
Summary: What should the Supreme Court do when gun laws are written by incompetent trolls?
Summary: The best bedtime routine is one you enjoy.
Summary: To understand the Israel-Hamas war, you have to understand how we got here.
Summary: Cleaner, faster, cheaper — the aviation industry’s plan to decarbonize air travel, explained.
Summary: And that you should probably wear shoes.
Summary: When workers go on strike, there are no guarantees it will work out.
Summary: Biden has avoided Middle East peacemaking. Now, it’s the only path forward.
Summary: Young Vermonters are, for maybe the first time ever, at the precipice of culture.
Summary: AI will play a major role in how children born today experience the world. It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse.
Summary: The most befuddling tax break in the US health care system, explained.
Summary: We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?
Summary: A century later, we still don’t know the full, stomach-churning extent of the Osage murders.
Summary: Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis?
Summary: But he’s going to keep trying to flip GOP holdouts.
Summary: Europe’s probe into harmful content on X about the Israel-Hamas war tests a new law that could reshape the internet.
Summary: Why a gag order has been issued — and the penalties Trump could face if he violates it.
Summary: How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.
Summary: Why the Supreme Court just smacked down one of the judiciary’s worst GOP partisans.
Summary: The stakes of Biden’s Mideast trip are enormous. Can he pull the region back from the brink?
Summary: Why did so many people believe in SBF — and what should we think now?
Summary: Why the UK is banning the American XL bully.
Summary: Clean hydrogen can be a lot dirtier than it seems, especially when the fossil fuel industry gets involved.
Summary: How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.
Summary: Nobody would build a system like America’s on purpose.
Summary: Choosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help.
Summary: The brain implant company Neuralink is pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.
Summary: Every year, picking a health plan is a frustrating guessing game. Here’s how to navigate your choices — and understand the system that built them.
Summary: The legacy of past conflicts is holding up aid at the Gaza border with Egypt.
Summary: Iran likely won’t launch direct attacks against Israel, but the possibility of a regional conflagration is real.
Summary: Attitudes toward Israel were already changing. The unfolding violence is making it even more complicated.
Summary: Protests in the Middle East show the centrality of Palestine.
Summary: It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.
Summary: The high stakes of Poland’s elections, explained.
Summary: California wants to find out.
Summary: Israel’s evacuation order is creating chaos in Gaza. A ground invasion will be worse.
Summary: Why we need empathy at the hardest moments
Summary: Massacring civilians is neither decolonization nor self-defense.
Summary: The US House is acting like a parliament. That’s not great for America — or for you.
Summary: Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler has a few ideas for how to regulate the "Digital Gilded Age."
Summary: Scalise still has to win on the House floor, which will require near-unanimity among Republicans.
Summary: We can now be sure: His policy of repressing Palestinians doesn’t make Israelis safe.
Summary: What is Hamas and what does it want out of this new resurgence of violent conflict?
Summary: Increased awareness is the first step to helping more people — particularly teens.
Summary: What will "full" war between Israel and Hamas mean? And 6 other questions about the conflict.
Summary: The Winnemem Wintu hopes to solidify the connection between Indigenous rights and biodiversity.
Summary: Gaza was already under siege. Now it will get worse.
Summary: Could this save democracy from a dangerous threat? Or would it imperil democracy further?
Summary: Wes Anderson’s new Netflix shorts are the latest case for the form.
Summary: Americans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted.
Summary: The jailed activist’s Nobel is also a reminder of Iran’s momentous protest movement.
Summary: The assault on southern Israel exposed the reality of the Palestinian conflict.
Summary: Human survival depends on this iconic ecosystem, and only one thing will save it.
Summary: Everyone forgot about the Palestinians — conditions have been set for two decades, and Biden’s focus on Israel-Saudi talks may have lit a match.
Summary: Here’s how a war between Israel and Hamas could play out.
Summary: The Exorcist: Believer shows how American religion and Hollywood movies have shifted.
Summary: People aren’t only cutting streaming subscriptions and cooking at home — they’re dipping into 401(k)s and postponing retirement.
Summary: The Canadian, biracial, Jewish, middle-class, former child actor has reshaped rap, pop, and the masculinity wars.
Summary: Phenylephrine doesn’t work better than a placebo. So why is it still on shelves?
Summary: The movies have had it with bad men.
Summary: As tourism returns to Maui, those displaced by this year’s deadly fires face losing their homes again.
Summary: The former J.Crew president has no idea how to be on reality TV, and it’s fantastic reality TV.
Summary: The baffling structure of rental car taxes and fees, explained.
Summary: Castor oil won’t dissolve cysts and tumors. Some creators on TikTok Shop are earning commissions by suggesting otherwise.
Summary: Electric school buses are better for kids’ health. The propane industry has other ideas.
Summary: Katalin Karikó co-won a Nobel Prize this week for her groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines — but she had to fight against professional science to do it.
Summary: The EU could backslide on its cage-free farming initiative and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance.
Summary: The justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs.
Summary: How McCarthy got into this mess, who’ll be speaker next, and more.
Summary: The big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else.
Summary: Even Travis Kelce thinks it’s a bit much.
Summary: The House voted to remove McCarthy as speaker. The search for a successor is on — and could drag on for days.
Summary: Yes, people on the internet are irritating. And yet.
Summary: He blames the collapse of moral education. But what about capitalism?
Summary: Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021.
Summary: A SCOTUS case about disabled travelers is likely to end in a whimper. That’s probably the best possible outcome.
Summary: Biden called Saudi Arabia a "pariah." What happened?
Summary: Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.
Summary: "Get outside more" seems like simple advice. The reality can be much more complicated.
Summary: US providers are underusing the drug — and not just in high-risk people.
Summary: Today, Explained looks at how Americans lost faith in capitalism — and whether we can get it back.
Summary: McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, and the motion to vacate, explained.
Summary: Your expensive coffee habit is indeed getting even more expensive.
Summary: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked Butler, the president of Emily’s List, as the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s successor.
Summary: Hungry for money, hackers in Vietnam have hacked into thousands of Meta accounts.
Summary: Here’s what’s coming in the WGA’s new contract.
Summary: Trump is exaggerating his union support.
Summary: "Die-ins," Krazy Glue, and gridlock: The climate movement is embracing civil disobedience.
Summary: Linda Yaccarino used to sell TV advertising. Selling Elon Musk is a whole different deal.
Summary: The latest struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, will ripple throughout the region.
Summary: What is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown.
Summary: Not all heroes wear capes. Some are crabs.
Summary: Donald Trump has been found liable for fraud in New York.
Summary: With Trump dominating the GOP primary, the debate is a cosplay of a competitive election — and a distraction from an ugly truth.
Summary: On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
Summary: "Young blood," starvation, fruit-only diets: How the rich are striving to "age in reverse"
Summary: Why New York City is struggling to house thousands of arriving migrants.
Summary: The Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move.
Summary: The Alabama GOP will have to comply with a Supreme Court order striking down its racially gerrymandered map.
Summary: The GOP-dominated state legislature wants more power over the 2024 contest.
Summary: Savior Complex, The Mission, and the culture behind toxic missionary work.
Summary: Miss Americana is a master of weaving her love life into her art.
Summary: Are we living through a uniquely brain-breaking era? Ask someone who went deep into the "mirror world."
Summary: This tiny Caribbean country shows why early warnings are an essential climate change adaptation.
Summary: The Supreme Court hears a civil rights case straight out of a right-wing fever dream.
Summary: Prosecutors claim the senator searched "How much is one kilo of gold worth?" on the internet. Will this indictment finally take Menendez down?
Summary: The economy’s "hold your breath moment," explained
Summary: "Exotic" cultivated meats claim to be harmless, but they could threaten actual endangered animals.
Summary: The new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Biden said, comes "in the absence of that sorely needed action."
Summary: What a brilliant new book gets right — and wrong — about America’s democracy.
Summary: Speaking up for yourself in a medical setting is a skill. Here’s what to know.
Summary: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have a vision for generative AI. Will it work?
Summary: America’s Trumpiest court handed down a shockingly dangerous decision. The Supreme Court is likely, but not certain, to fix it.
Summary: What to know about the WGA’s tentative deal to end the longest labor stoppage in the industry’s history.
Summary: The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived in Utah Sunday, carrying material from the dawn of the solar system.
Summary: Lessons from a month of celebrities who don’t know when to stop talking.
Summary: A rundown on the factions involved in the disarray.
Summary: Lachlan Murdoch will be formally in charge of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and everything else his father built and bought. For now.
Summary: Photos from before and after record temperatures struck Florida show the wrath of climate change.
Summary: The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
Summary: The expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back.
Summary: The bolder, narrower message of the climate movement, explained.
Summary: Amid rising traffic deaths, legal mechanisms designed to keep streets safe are breaking down. Is there a better way?
Summary: Could you build a company like Publix today?
Summary: AI doesn’t have to be superintelligent to cause serious havoc.
Summary: Some unanswered scientific questions loom out in the universe. Others reside in our homes.
Summary: How Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice — and saved lives.
Summary: The invasive challenge faced by single parents seeking government assistance.
Summary: The happiest place on earth, explained by the numbers.
Summary: After much hand-wringing, America’s talk show sweetheart is sorry she tried to violate the writers’ strike.
Summary: Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance.
Summary: The killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada has exposed a big problem for US foreign policy.
Summary: A third-generation Floridian reflects on the state’s unofficial, unwanted mascot.
Summary: Are we in the middle of Ocean’s 14 or is this just another ransomware attack?
Summary: These monkeys, reptiles, and birds don’t belong in Florida. Should we kick them out?
Summary: Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible.
Summary: On the AMPTP’s identity crisis, Drew Barrymore, the fall TV calendar, and whether this will ever end.
Summary: Believe it or not, there are worse judges than Brett Kavanaugh. And now Brett needs to clean up their mess.
Summary: How people like you could wipe out extreme poverty and prevent the next pandemic.
Summary: An extreme heat wave has pushed Florida’s reef to the brink — and burned up years worth of progress.
Summary: Parents can have a great relationship with their kids without being their friend.
Summary: One of the fastest-growing states in the nation is also one of the most complicated.
Summary: Some types of air pollution slow global warming — but at the cost of millions of deaths a year.
Summary: In Sunday’s interview with Kristen Welker, Trump went with his classic playbook of vague answers and conspiracy theories.
Summary: Why Florida went red — and will probably stay that way.
Summary: Examining the Sunshine State’s outsized role in American culture.
Summary: DEEP VZN aimed to discover viruses in wildlife that could threaten humans, but the risks weren’t worth the rewards.
Summary: The death toll is a tragedy decades in the making.
Summary: Here’s what the prison sentences mean for the group’s violent extremism.
Summary: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing.
Summary: In Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy.
Summary: It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.
Summary: Geothermal’s "breakthrough," and the challenges ahead, explained.
Summary: Nobody trusts tabloid spin anymore, for better and for worse.
Summary: An extraordinary autumn is expected after a record-smashing summer.
Summary: Everyone over 6 months should get a new shot, according to the CDC. Should we expect this every year?
Summary: From The Royal Hotel to Woman of the Hour to Sorry/Not Sorry, what the movies are doing with bad men.
Summary: Semaglutide, the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, could soon be used for a lot more than weight loss.
Summary: The new show’s hair and wardrobe team explain the significance of these seemingly small choices.
Summary: Kim Jong Un left for a Russian economic summit this week, but weapons could be on the table.
Summary: Climate change is expanding the list of areas at risk for the worst wildfires.
Summary: Would money help tenants more than housing vouchers?
Summary: Conservatives have threatened to oppose a funding bill if their demands aren’t met.
Summary: Once again, this year’s phones will look a lot like last year’s. But real innovation is on the horizon.
Summary: If you love nature, consider not driving in it.
Summary: Groff’s latest is an un-put-down-able story of survival.
Summary: Many Democrats fear a challenge would pave the way to Trump’s victory. Are they right?
Summary: The right’s leading culture warrior has invented a leftist takeover of America to justify his very real power grabs.
Summary: Which search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide.
Summary: Suits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming.
Summary: A massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,100.
Summary: The first international climate change stocktake says trying is not enough.
Summary: The former Real Housewife wants Bravo and other reality stars to come together and unionize. It’s not so simple.
Summary: Not all coups are the same — but they do have some important commonalities.
Summary: Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Australia had heat waves in the past few months. Now spring begins.
Summary: The conservative push for "school choice" has had its most successful year ever. Why — and what comes next?
Summary: Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed a player after the World Cup. He’s refused to resign.
Summary: The rise of cash benchmarking at USAID, explained.
Summary: The right-wing warrior may soon see his legal issues catch up with him. It could shape the future of the Texas GOP.
Summary: The Asian American candidate is peddling a dangerous message.
Summary: Baseball fixed itself by changing its rules. The country should pay attention.
Summary: Warnings about "juice jacking" have been around for a decade, but does it actually happen?
Summary: Fans are creating new concert traditions for a new age.
Summary: The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.
Summary: The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife.
Summary: How to cope with both inflation and lifestyle creep.
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Summary: Private school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war.
Summary: The global vaccination campaign got cut out of Congress’s new Covid-19 funding bill. That’s a mistake.
Summary: Survivors of early school shootings reflect, the growing popularity of the word "trauma," scientists’ efforts to understand memory, and more.
Summary: Sinema’s political future is murky after her filibuster vote.
Summary: A Steve Bannon indictment shows the DOJ willing to enforce Congress’s subpoena power.
Summary: Russia and Ukraine are talking, but huge gulfs remain.
Summary: Circuit City v. Adams is one of the most indefensible decisions of the modern era. Its shadow hangs over the Court this month.
Summary: Non-Ukrainian refugees are trapped between racism and Cold War geopolitics.
Summary: In a recent speech, the Russian president laid out the nationalist ideas that animate him — and helped cause the Ukraine crisis.
Summary: I’d inherited his family’s money, his height, his arthritis. Could I inherit the very worst parts of him, too?
Summary: The fallout will hit the borrowers who can least afford it.
Summary: You can modify your existing plans to make them safer.
Summary: Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?
Summary: The biggest climate conference in history was a tiny step toward solving a gargantuan problem.
Summary: Taylor Swift has been teasing a 10-minute version of one of her old songs for years. It’s finally here.
Summary: Republicans turned the hearing into a blizzard of misleading attacks, many of which seem designed to appeal to QAnon supporters.
Summary: The scourge of plant poaching is hurting the planet.
Summary: Covid-19 vaccines for young children are coming. But it’s complicated.
Summary: These 5 leading indicators will help experts figure out how much of a threat omicron really is.
Summary: I hadn’t realized how important for my mental health it was to talk with someone like me.
Summary: The clean electricity program is "the backbone of the energy transition," experts say.
Summary: The challenges the party will face in keeping its majorities in 2022 and 2024.
Summary: How Emma Eun-joo Choi balances being a junior in college with hosting her new spinoff of Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!
Summary: Russia’s war against Ukraine has ramifications for space.
Summary: There is no right or wrong answer on getting another booster shot. Here’s what to consider.
Summary: The meat industry’s environmental racism problem, explained.
Summary: Data shows why Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently than others fleeing violence.
Summary: The Dropout, Super Pumped, and WeCrashed try to break up our love affair with tech founders. They don’t totally succeed.
Summary: The closures could make giving birth more dangerous in the United States.
Summary: A political scientist on why the fate of the global political order hangs in the balance.
Summary: Staying married was my own form of masochism — just without the kinky accoutrements.
Summary: The conservative Court adds more cases to its growing culture war docket.
Summary: These panels are everywhere — and they’re part of a hidden system.
Summary: "There isn’t a middle ground between a livable and unlivable world."
Summary: Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. Sorry!
Summary: This two-legged chair has been famous for almost 100 years.
Summary: Russia’s Ukraine war forced a turning point in how Berlin sees itself in the world.
Summary: The air around us is vibrating with sonic lessons, says an award-winning biologist. All we have to do is listen.
Summary: Covid-19 exposed many of the flaws in the US health care system. Congress might not do anything to fix them.
Summary: Why buzzy tech often fails to protect wildlife.
Summary: A chat with Jason Kilar on his two-year tenure, the future of movies, and more.
Summary: The PREVENT Pandemics Act is a good bill. It isn’t enough to prevent pandemics.
Summary: CGI superheroes are more common than you think.
Summary: Cars are computers now, but the government hasn’t caught up.
Summary: The new Scream movie and The Matrix Resurrections explore what happens when stories never end.
Hollywood has run out of ideas
Summary: Americans’ excessive and unpredictable work schedules are making us lonely, self-centered, and powerless.
Summary: The European Union says migrants at the Belarus-Poland border are part of a "hybrid attack."
Summary: Amazon wanted to make former employee Chris Smalls the face of labor activism. He just handed Amazon its first US union.
Summary: Public opinion, states, and even the GOP have come around to the idea of legal weed. So how hard is it to finally get done?
Summary: Our senses create our reality. They can trick us, but also teach us.
Summary: The Oscar-nominated director of Attica keeps showing us the real America.
Summary: Putin’s nuclear threats prove the need for disarmament.
Summary: Wendy Williams’s rise, reputation, and absence from her talk show, explained.
Summary: Pokémon had all the hallmarks of a flash in the pan. Two decades later, it’s a $100 billion empire.
Summary: Covid-19 experts on which treatments hold up against omicron and which ones to ask a doctor about if you get sick.
Summary: I remembered that my body was hungry because it was keeping me alive.
Summary: Americans aren’t just quitting their jobs; they’re fighting back.
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Summary: The new, easy-to-take antivirals are now on pharmacy shelves. This is who they stand to help the most.
Summary: The justices are concerned that Wisconsin’s legislative maps may give too much political power to Black people.
Summary: Scientists are investigating how to treat pain in babies who can’t tell you when it hurts.
Summary: In Europe’s first major war in decades, Russian forces are finding stiffer resistance than they likely expected.
Summary: The problem of Joe Rogan is a problem of the modern internet.
Summary: Employers aren’t letting go of workers. That’s another indicator of worker power.
Summary: GOP critiques of the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection serve to further normalize the attack.
Summary: The groundbreaking sci-fi franchise, explained in 5 eras.
Summary: Rent control won’t fix the housing crisis. It’s still a good idea.
Summary: Five reasons for the HBO drama’s massive footprint on the TV landscape.
Summary: As biology gets better, biosecurity gets harder. Here’s what the world can do to prepare.
Summary: The same: The brutal math of exponential growth. Different: Our pandemic fatigue is worse than ever.
Summary: NATO countries are weighing military assistance to Ukraine carefully.
Summary: Tech companies are doing a bad job of helping us use their devices less.
Summary: The truest, purest feast of fools.
Summary: Blue Origin thinks all kinds of companies will want some space in space.
Summary: Millennials grew up hating their bodies. Does Gen Z have to be the same?
Summary: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is facing a contempt vote by the January 6 committee.
Summary: Delores White said she was defending her daughter. She went to jail anyway.
Summary: People want to help Ukrainians, and Airbnb has emerged as one way to do it. But is it the most effective?
Summary: The four myths Republicans have been spreading about oil and gas prices, explained.
Summary: Nothing is at stake in West Virginia v. EPA — yet somehow everything is at stake.
Summary: Coffee, wine, and wheat varieties are among the foods we could lose forever.
Summary: It is possible to create programs that don’t burden the people who need them most.
Summary: Russia’s invasion threat looms, and there have been no diplomatic breakthroughs yet.
Summary: The pandemic was the best thing that happened to Peloton until it was the worst.
Summary: A new poll shows strong support for taxing the rich to pay for Democrats’ Build Back Better Act.
Summary: It will be hard to host the Winter Games when winter isn’t cold.
Summary: For decades, dramatized plot lines about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies helped create our real-world abortion discourse.
Summary: What’s taking the feds so long to legalize marijuana? Also, therapeutic Covid-19 drugs, abortion by mail, and what a "sober" high might mean.
Summary: What one study can — and can’t — tell us about education policy.
Summary: Before he became an international symbol, he played a common man whose outrage over corruption elevated him to high office.
Summary: A tale of two moral universes.
Summary: E.O. Wilson, who’s considered a modern-day Darwin, wants you to go out and look for new species.
Summary: A new paper investigates the effects of chlorine treatment at water sources in some Kenyan villages. The findings were astounding.
Summary: A university’s orders to remove a Tiananmen Square monument show how deep Beijing’s Hong Kong crackdown goes.
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Summary: "Shame on Congress for not sucking it up and doing what needs to be done," the senator told Recode.
Summary: A look at the Supreme Court nominee’s record defending indigent clients.
Summary: Who is restorative justice restoring?
Summary: What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.
Summary: Mass bombardments and cluster munitions are reminiscent of the wars in Syria and Chechnya.
Summary: Beijing’s opening ceremony featured Vladimir Putin, thousands of Chinese teenagers, and a lot of loaded politics.
Summary: There’s a reason they wanted the social spending bill tied to infrastructure.
Summary: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s new collaboration with Ridley Scott misses what’s important about the famous 14th-century rape case.
Summary: Restrictive states have already set their sights on a new wave of telehealth companies that were supposed to be a panacea for a post-Roe world.
Summary: The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a ferociously smart set of short stories that read like fairy tales for the 21st century.
Summary: Modern outrage is a cycle. Could a culture of public forgiveness ever break it?
Summary: When lawmakers focus on children’s online safety to get bills passed, they leave everyone else out. Now they’re trying again.
Summary: A world without bugs is a world we don’t want to live in.
Summary: Putin is violating a surprisingly powerful international law, and other nations are punishing him accordingly.
Summary: When did everybody start calling themselves content creators?
Summary: An early wave of survivors came of age in a wholly unprepared world. Now they’re in their 30s and 40s, grappling with the present.
Summary: The pandemic refuses to quit. What can the White House do about it?
Summary: After George Floyd’s death, many white Americans formed book clubs. A year later, they’re wondering, "What now?"
Summary: Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, The Closer, may be a tipping point for trans people.
Summary: Her nomination is now set for a floor vote this week.
Summary: The ridiculous theory that Russia’s war is going according to plan, debunked.
Summary: Democratic senators represent 43 million more people than their Republican counterparts.
Summary: Bergman Island is a delightful anagram of a movie, and one of the best films of the year.
Summary: Tiny doses of magic mushrooms, LSD, and cannabis have hit wellness culture, while the stigma around the drugs recedes.
Summary: Jared Leto’s latest asks, "What if vampires just wanted to study all the time?"
Summary: Vladimir Putin’s war is still raging, signaling a frightening escalation on the ground.
Summary: An MLK scholar on how we lost sight of King’s nuanced politics — and how we can revive them today.
Summary: The National Book Award-nominated novel brings the swaggering brilliance of 12th-century poet Marie de France to towering life.
Summary: Insurers are getting rocked by climate disasters. They’re also shaping how we prepare for the next one.
Summary: Despite what conservatives say, Joe Biden is not trying to ruin the holiday shopping season.
Summary: Samuel Bickett is trying to appeal his conviction — and prove the rule of law still exists in Hong Kong.
Summary: From the why to the who, we still need a lot of answers about booster shots.
Summary: Janet Jackson was able to transcend America’s misogynoir — until the Super Bowl.
Summary: The two make roughly the same salary, but their socioeconomic backgrounds inform how they view that money.
Summary: The big unanswered question at the heart of Democrats’ health care agenda.
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