With the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and, especially, again in 2024, the adjacent possible of American society has shifted dr ...

A little over two months after Trump returned to power, it seems undeniable that even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault and overestimated democratic ...

I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the ...

Multi-Player plays a grid of multiple copies of a single YouTube video, each with a slight additional delay. The site requires a bunch of bandwidth, but the effect is trippy when it works.

This excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is quite good. Twai ...

In a stage production that premiered last year in London, Steve Coogan played four roles (Dr. Strangelove, Captain Mandrake, Presi ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First issued in 2022, the document was designed by creative agency RETINAA. Drawing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope “has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday& ...

In this episode of This American Life from a few weeks ago, Masha Gessen read an excerpt from their book Surviving Autocracy about ...