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The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT

OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.

The Movies Got Small, and So Did We

Going to the movies with my dad

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts

Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.

The Personality Trait That Makes People Feel Comfortable Around You

People with positive “affective presence” are easy to be around and oil the gears of social interactions.

Why Happy People Cheat

A good marriage is no guarantee against infidelity.

The Missing Kayaker

What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?

Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open

It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.

The Germans Who Stood Up to Hitler

And the Germans who didn’t

A Confederacy of Toddlers

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

Five Books to Read on Your Next Flight

These stories will help pass the time while you travel.

America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy

How our public sphere has drifted from reality to a “simulated” democracy—and what it might take to pull it back

Get Your Kid a Watch

A smartwatch isn’t capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.

You’re on Ozempic? How Quaint.

The next-generation “GLP-1 plus” drugs will be tailored to the health needs of individual patients.

The Right Attitude to Gratitude

Being thankful is the ultimate win-win: If the person being thanked feels happy, the person doing the thanking feels happier still.

The Comedian Dismantling the Alpha-Male Persona

Tim Robinson has figured out how to make abrasive men sympathetic.

The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse

Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

The Perfected Self

B. F. Skinner’s notorious theory of behavior modification was denounced by critics 50 years ago as a fascist, manipulative vehicle for government control. But Skinner’s ideas are making an unlikely comeback today, powered by smartphone apps that are transforming us into thinner, richer, all-around-better versions of ourselves. The only thing we have to give up? Free will.