The Real Roots of American Rage
The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
The president’s extraordinary emergency powers, how Tibet went crazy for hoops, rescuing American exceptionalism, and why we’re so angry. Plus a new term for ‘LGBTQ,’ modern feminism’s RBG obsession, how authoritarians wage war on women, fiction by Samanta Schweblin, and more.
The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things.
Monks, nomads, and a sport’s unlikely ascent in a remote corner of the globe
We allowed an important idea—American exceptionalism—to be hijacked and misused. Now we need to rescue that idea and let it guide America at home and abroad.
A traveler plots an escape from a rural train station. A short story
Donald Trump’s ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades.
As machines fill the skies, they meet resistance from the animals who already live there.
The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities
Marijuana legalization was supposed to decrease crime—but the reality is more complicated.
What Big Pharma knows about people’s hardwired instinct to reciprocate when given a gift
Why millions of women play the mobile game Love and Producer
A very short book excerpt
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
A new biography squares the decorous legal figure with the feminist gladiator.
In Hark, the characters are distracted, and their author veers between satire and sincerity.
What a new retrospective reveals about the artist, and about our swerve away from humanism
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
Readers respond to our November 2018 stories and more.
A big question
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