The Blindness of Elites
Walter Kirn and the empty politics of defiance
If the former president really did order an assassination—as his lawyers argue he could—does anyone believe it would cost him his supporters?
Rescheduling weed will clear the way for scientists to study it more directly.
I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.
Russian mercenaries are wringing wealth and political leverage out of the Sahel.
Just what the college unrest needed: political theater
Jane Schoenbrun, the director of the unsettling new film I Saw the TV Glow, has some ideas.
In its third season, the show faces the failures of late-night comedy head-on.
Devastating floods across Kenya, a pagan fire festival in Scotland, antler gathering in Wyoming, pro-Palestinian demonstrations at many American colleges, and much more
Yes, America is a wounded giant—but it always has been, and the case for optimism is surprisingly strong. (From 2023)
Most of the great passenger railroads have withered and died and they have been replaced by Amtrak, which has mammoth troubles of its own. (From 1976)
Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic