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The Metamorphosis
AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder about how to adapt.
Raj Chetty's American Dream
The economist whose work dispelled the myth of social mobility in the U.S. Has a plan to make it a reality.
The audacious plan to save this man's life by transplanting his head
And what would happen if it actually worksLike a little white Lazarus with red eyes, the paralyzed mouse was walking again.
Why The Saudis Are Going Solar
The fate of one of the biggest fossil-fuel producers of the past 40 years may now depend on its investment in renewable energy.
Guardian Of The Vote
Barbara Simons, a pioneering computer scientist, believes there is only one safe voting technology: paper.
Shark Tank Nation
The Rise Of Capitalist reality TV
Nietzsche's Guide To Better Living
If philosophy can serve as therapy, its not by offering solace but by jolting the soul.
The Personal Cost Of Black Success
Two men chronicle their rise into the meritocratic elite, exposing pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.
Women Are Angry. Now What?
Rebecca Traister Invokes Fury To Unify Women In A Battle Against Men, But Being Mad Can Prove Divisive, Too.
Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome
He turned politics into a vicious blood sport, broke Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood
Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social-media platform, highlights petty grievances—and proves that Americans have more in common than they think.
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.
The Stock-Buy Back Swindle
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.
Why The Police Fail To Catch Serial Rapists?
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.
What Inspired The Summer Of Love?
Love, sure-but mostly drugs
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
What Is the Most Underappreciated Medical Invention In History?
How To Die
As a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has helped others grapple with their mortality. Now he is preparing for his own end.
License-Plate Marriages
YOU CAN marry for love, you can marry for money, or, in Beijing, you can marry for a license plate.
The Big Question
Q: What Crime Most Changed The Course Of History?
The White House Mythmaker
How Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s heroic vision of American presidents led him, and the country, astray
Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase
Imagine a world without the concept of adolescence.
Unicorn Fever
The mythical creature rises in uncertain times.
Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?
In its quest to beat Netix, it might have to.
What Alexa Taught My Father
Legally blind since age 18, he missed out on the rst digital revolution.
Mrs. Maisel's Secret
Amazon’s hit show is a fantasy of a woman living in two contradictory worlds at once.
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A YELLOW TAXI CIRCLES the airport; mist over LaGuardia; rumor of improvised explosive device; a bald Nigerian hack listening to incensed propagandists on WOR, his cab merging with the vortex; and behind the Plexiglas, an entrepreneurial American capitalist half his age, iPhone perpetually to her per fect pink ear, hair dark as a tiger’s stripe.
What Really Killed The Dinosaurs?
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. Her fight with the asteroid camp may be the nastiest feud in all of science— but she’s reopened a debate that had been considered closed.
The Lie Of Little Women
Subversive secrets lurk in the gap between Louisa May Alcott’s real life and the story she tells.
The Women Who Changed Spycraft
An old-boy operation was transformed during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
Ethiopia's Image-Maker
Aïda Muluneh, whose vibrant photographs explore national identity, wants to upend portrayals of Africa.