Earth 2.0(°C)

MANY HIGHLY VULNERABLE POPULAtions and ecosystems are already facing the devastating impacts of climate change.

The Real Housewives of Truman Capote's New York

WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN queer men and glamorous women so intimate-and so volatile? Consider Jennifer Coolidge's tragic White Lotus character, Tanya, who wandered off with a crew of fortune hunters she memorably described as \"high-end gays.\" Or Andy Cohen playing ringmaster to a universe of pugnacious Real Housewives.

Why India's Ram temple is so controversial

THE INAUGURATION OF a vast temple dedicated to Lord Ram, one of Hinduism's most revered deities, on Jan. 22 has set India on edge once again.

HOW THE WAR WILL END

In the aftermath of the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, Israel declared an ever expanding list of war aims, ranging from the return of all hostages to the creation of a buffer zone separating Israel from Gaza's population. Yet no Israeli leader has explained how the military campaign, even as it has destroyed much of the Strip, could possibly achieve its objectives. That's because it can't-and they know it.

I Wish Mom Had Ozempic. She'd Have Liked Me

Semaglutide drugs would have made a huge difference to my mother's mental health - and to our relationship

MOST TRUSTED BRANDS - 2024

THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL RELATIONSHIPS is trust. This applies to our personal relationships and to our dealings with the businesses and brands we depend on daily. You want to be confident that when you pay for a product or service, it will live up to your expectations time and time again. While it isn't easy to measure trust, it's a quality critical for success that is challenging to earn and easy to lose.

Collegiate Swifties Rejoice

Here's why schools from the Ivy League to the U.K. are offering electives on Taylor Swift - from her social significance to her business acumen

Common

'What I'm doing is just sharing things that have worked for me. I think each individual has to find what works for them.'

Jake Johnson

'If the business is gone and the dream is over, [Self Reliance] was the movie I wanted to make.'

WHAT WOULD AN INDEPENDENT TEXAS LOOK LIKE?

SECESSION CAMPAIGNERS HAVE PUSHED TO GET A FREEDOM REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT IN THE LONE STAR STATE. IS THE RETURN TO BEING A REPUBLIC A PIPE DREAM OR IS IT COMING DOWN THE PIPE?

Harvard in Turmoil

Campuses are hotbeds of protest, but it's nothing new. Nor is it as bad now as in the '60s and '70s

COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court

SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.

The Life and Death of a Company Town

MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.

Ski Jump Snow Job

IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.

Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality

\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.

Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger

CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.

Big Brother in the Driver's Seat

IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.

Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.

Creating Our Own Simulations

FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.

The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer

THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.

Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions

EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).

GODZILLA MINUS ONE

The beginning of Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the 70-year series of kaiju flicks made by the Japanese production company Toho, upends one part of the usual formula: Tokyo is already a smoldering wasteland.

THE LAST LIBERAL

Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech

The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics

BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.

THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS

MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.

REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT

CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?

Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'

YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.

Michelle Yeoh

IF YOU THOUGHT MICHELLE YEOH WAS GOING TO SLOW DOWN AFTER winning last year's Best Actress Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you'd be mistaken.

Unleash the Molecules!

How turned science into pop art

Go-Big Experiences

These unmissable adventures will make 2024 a year to remember