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The U.S. is trying to destroy Mexican cartels. But so far, a turf war has only deepened.

A 1978 massacre offers a warning for America today.

The film industry is starting to see Reddit and YouTube as gold mines, but those platforms won’t save Hollywood on their own.

Subpar connectivity on airplanes was a gift, in a way.

A new regional pact highlights Iran’s isolation.

Phoebe Bridgers’s new record is heavy with post-pandemic disappointment.

A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet.

The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak.

The Brink of War , a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.

Szabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the 2026 IWWF World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships at Shunyi Olympic Cable Park on August 9, 2026, in Beijing, China.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed.

The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth.

Americans have been stuck in a state of vaccine whiplash.

Also no.

When it comes to technology, the answer to the future could come from the past.

Finalist, Ocean Adventure. A free diver is surrounded by a school of sardines, which part to form a halo as they move around her.

For the characters in The Disappearers , seeing and being seen are matters of life and death.

The masked web-slinger has been setting box-office records for decades, even as the popularity of superhero movies wanes.

The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.

The president cleverly evaded a serious threat, but he shouldn’t have kept it a secret.

Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?

How a show ends determines how it’s remembered.

The sun’s corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase of the total solar eclipse, as seen from San Asensio, La Rioja region, Spain, on August 12, 2026.

For most online daters, it won’t make a difference.

Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party.

Rob Sand isn’t progressive or moderate. What is he trying to be?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking on the fuzziest category in food science.

The country may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to protest the war, but mass demonstrations don’t look likely.

Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?

Parents who wait for their kid to be “ready” to toilet train may be making their own lives harder, not easier.

Five years after the U.S. withdrawal, al-Qaeda remains weak and the Taliban has become an unexpected partner.

Levels of the hormone have dropped in the past half century—but no one knows exactly why.

Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict.

The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now.