Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns ...
To test out this idea, I asked an exceptionally creative person: the writer James Patterson, whom I recently interviewed for my weekly podcast. As prolific as he is popular, Patterson has, over the ...
To better understand why the president is inexplicably going after Venezuela, one must study the behavior of small children.
OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate “innovation,” contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Opinion

Make Culture Weird Again

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, ...
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 ...
Vom Tiefpunkt zurück ins Rampenlicht: Max Hopp startet als deutscher Rekordteilnehmer bei der WM. Was ihn wieder stark ...
Immer mehr Erwachsene bekommen eine ADHS-Diagnose. Unter 40-Jährige hatten im gesamten Zeitraum die höchste Rate an ...