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The therapist Esther Perel has a theory about America’s eroticism shortage.

The United States is intensifying its hunt for narcos within the Mexican government. Is this all prelude to an attack?

A policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.

Members of the press photograph a dead mouse caught by Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the U.K. Cabinet Office, during incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street, London, on July 21, 2026.

Senators elected this November will be in office when America’s most popular federal program is on track to run out of money.

The fall of Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, leaves younger officers to finish the reforms that he resisted.

The generation’s novels tend to focus on the flatness of modern life—but alienation doesn’t have to be dull.

We should really have a better way of knowing when it’s safe to go outside.

Popular gray-market drugs may soon be easy to get through mainstream channels.

Elon Musk’s company is quietly becoming even more important to the future of electric cars in America.

The Trump administration is giving Saudi Arabia exactly what it wants. For what?

How the AI-driven memory crisis affects us all

Can a novel capture the shock of planetary instability?

White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

Republicans in the state legislature abruptly slashed funding for civil legal aid for low-income clients this month.

Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

Regime collapse is unlikely, but a revised approach might still degrade the Iranian position.

A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has spurred anti-corruption protests.

Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”

The new blockbuster’s box-office success affirms the power of spectacle.

In the 19th century, “artisans of the brain” flooded to office jobs to prove themselves.

The Georgia Democrat is running for reelection to the Senate. Why are so many people buzzing about him as a 2028 presidential candidate?

The president is happy to receive money and gifts, but don’t expect favors in return.

The president is ordering new signs outside the Smithsonian to warn Americans about history.

Ella Langley’s country music offers an appealing commodity for this moment: moderation.

Too many institutions are teaching young people to stay quiet.

Jay Young looking at a photograph of his father, Jeffrey Young, at his home in Frisco, Texas

The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.

Trump said it himself in June—military force won’t open the waterway, and energy reserves are quickly winding down.

You can’t post your way out of a war.

National Parks Service staff reinstall plaques outside the President's House in February. A new exhibit replaced them last week.

Republicans grilled a museum head, intensifying Donald Trump’s campaign to reshape the American story.

Sometimes the things that bring us the most joy are the ones we stumble upon.

As the government began to figure out why people were getting sick, the messaging got only worse.

Trying to attach some numbers to a fuzzy phase of life

The president and the Pentagon are not being up front about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.

The Hugging Face hack reveals that the web is in a vulnerable new era.

Vincent Smith on rising grocery prices and whether there will be relief anytime soon. Plus: Trump’s broken economic policies and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology .

Trump weighs escalating the war with Iran as criticism of the conflict grows.

Dave Eggers’s career has long balanced two major impulses. In his new book, he lets them wrestle on the page.