When presented with facts, Americans generally become more accurate. The question is: Are they consuming enough of the right information? AP Photo/Andrew Harnik By Ethan Porter and Thomas J. Wood 01/0
Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020? Photo by Julia Rendleman for Politico Magazine By David Freedlander 02/06/2020 05:09 AM EST David Free
How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change Here’s a five-step plan to deal with the stress and become part of the solution. Jan. 10, 2020 Credit... Evan Cohen By Ms. Marris is the author of “R
It’s easy to laugh, as some of us do , at the phrase “conservative intellectual.” When the most prominent public spokesmen for the right’s ideas include Milo Yiannopoulos , Charles Murray , and Dinesh D’Souza , one might conclude that the movement does not have anything serious to offer beyond…
Last week Twitter erupted in a heated debate about global poverty. The question was whether it’s better to measure our progress against poverty (or lack thereof) by looking at the total number of peop
The one downside of the fact that the Nationals (hurrah for our brave boys!) are in the World Series is that now the New York Times is trying to inform its readers about this curious hamlet with few r
The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin. “Help me,” he said. “I’m under a curse.” At first it was just flickering lights, he said. And then a figure, at the edge of his vision. Now
It’s been about a year and a half since shareable e-scooters entered popular culture in earnest. Deployed en masse in San Francisco in the spring of 2018, scooters were immediately hailed as harbinger
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further evidence of his Administration’s troubled relationship with that
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A long time ago, a
Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century. The claim is made in a new investigation of the cont
Brink Lindsey is vice president of the Niskanen Center in Washington. This is the first in a series of On Common Ground essays that identifies areas of broad agreement in a divided political era. Look
I did not want to be myself. I envied my teammates’ sense of entitlement, their natural ease. I began wearing flannel. I incorporated B Vitamins into my regimen and began listening to E.D.M. while I w
S ince it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But
T he west is being destroyed, not by migrants, but by the fear of migrants. In country after country, the ghosts of the fascists have rematerialised and are sitting in parliaments in Germany, in Austr
Susan Wojcicki, the C.E.O. of YouTube. The company is facing profound technical, social, and political challenges in moderating its own system. Photograph by Peter Prato / NYT / Redux Earlier this yea
What if the left was right on race? That’s the question Jane Coaston posed to movement conservatives in Vox . She was mulling claims from the right that the GOP would never have united around a man li
In a new story, we look at the intense competition between China and the United States to develop quantum technology, which is based on the field of quantum mechanics and holds the promise of transfor
It’s a theory of mine that life in most societies involves being keenly aware that the end is coming. Your own individual end, yes, but also the end of this , the entire experience that is life as you
There is one developed country—and only one—in which it is not only legal, but easy and convenient, to amass a private arsenal of mass slaughter. That country also happens to be the one—and the only o
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If Republicans want to make the case that Democrats are a bunch of dangerous socialists, they have an abundance of clips to choose from the two nights of the Detroit debate: Elizabeth Warren rubbing h
Do Democratic presidential candidates think they can win a Democratic primary by attacking Barack Obama? Many of them spent a lot of time doing just that at Wednesday night’s presidential primary deba
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Quick personality quiz just for fun: Which character from nightmare dystopian fiction are you? Mostly ‘A’s: You’re Winston Smith from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four — emotionally led, impulsive,
Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than D
Steve and Teri Augustine met, fell in love and got married in a conservative evangelical Christian community. They grew up believing homosexuality was a sin, and that the “gay agenda” was an attack on
Long ago, I was captivated by a seductively intuitive idea, one many of my wealthy friends still subscribe to: that both poverty and rising inequality are largely consequences of America’s failing edu
There may be no American institution more polarizing than fast food. Whether it’s wages, health, the environment or those Colonel Sanders ads, the problems associated with the all-American meal inspir
I Was an Anti-Abortion Crusader. Now I Support Roe v. Wade. Overturning the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision would not be “pro-life.” It would be destructive of life. May 30, 2019 Credit... Cornelia Li B
At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content? An executive responded by explaining that Twitter follows the law, and a technical…
Credit: Getty Images I was riding a bus recently and noticed an older man sitting outside a coffee shop on a busy sidewalk. He had set up a chessboard on the table in front of him, and he watched as p
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This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening. I think it’s
Ta-Nehisi Coates. Photo: Cole Wilson/The New York Times/Redux In recent days, as Democrats debated the definition of “reparations,” Joe Biden rationalized his opposition to integration , and socialis
The defenders of “respectable” evangelicalism were out in force in 2017. In newspapers , magazines , and National Public Radio programs , they delivered a consistent message. That group of Trump-lovin
The Revolt of the Democratic Elites And the surprising strength of the rank and file. May 2, 2019 Bernie Sanders opened his presidential campaign at Brooklyn College in March. Credit... Todd Heisler/T
Much virtual ink has been spilled discussing the merits of the term “evangelical.” But the energetic attempts to declare #notallevangelicals fall short if they fail to ask, “Why does our theology lead
Anti-choicers are forcing Democratic candidates to defend supposed ‘birthday abortions’ — a procedure that doesn’t actually exist Published in GEN · 5 min read · Apr 19, 2019 -- Photo: Bill Pugliano/G
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