The Singular Wonder of October
“October is the month of painted leaves,” Thoreau wrote in 1862. “Their rich glow now flashes round the world.”
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Charles Krupa / AP How Choices About Having Kids Really Get Made
It’s about a lot more than “baby fever”—and it may be about more than government support too.
d3sign / Getty 331 Days of Failure
A conversation with Franklin Foer about why diplomacy in the U.S. and the Middle East has so far ended in chaos
Evelyn Hockstein / AFP / Getty Six Sunday Reads
Spend time with stories about taking a break from dating, why people aren’t having kids, the insurrectionists next door, and more.
Illustration by Ben Hickey Truth, Lies, and All That’s in Between
Spewing the truth all the time has its own cost.
George Marks / Retrofile / Getty The Springfield Effect
Trump and Vance spread racist memes that turned into bomb threats and school evacuations.
Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty When Life Feels Too Busy for Friendship
You know that’s the case when you find yourself feeling the “post-rescheduling thrill.”
Alec Soth / Magnum A New Level of Incoherence From Trump
His answer to a specific policy question yesterday made absolutely no sense.
David Dee Delgado / AFP / Getty Religious Education and the Meaning of Life
Figuring out what it’s all about is humanity’s most important shared project. Does religion have a role to play?
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty The Parent-Child Relationship in the College Years
Many parents stay enmeshed in their children’s emotional life in college, for better or worse.
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