JANUARY
What Squirrels Taught Me About Life After Divorce
Alabama Makes Plans to Gas Its Prisoners
The Republican Majority’s Opening Debacle
The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy’s Predicament Is a Warning
The GOP Is a Battering Ram Against Truth
Speaker in Name Only
Why Some Students Are Skipping College
What the Rioters in Brazil Learned From Americans
Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative?
Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The Gas-Stove Debate Exemplifies the Silliest Tendencies of American Politics
Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track
Time Is on Ukraine’s Side, Not Russia’s
The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
The Supreme Court Justices Do Not Seem to Be Getting Along
The Greatest Nuclear Threat We Face Is a Russian Victory
What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
What Winning Did to the Anti-abortion Movement
A Grim New Low for Internet Sleuthing
Roe Was Never Roe After All
The Trillion-Dollar Coin Might Be the Least Bad Option
The People Who Don’t Read Books
The Meme That Defined a Decade
‘We Used to Be Called Moderate. We Are Not Moderate.’
Inhumanity in Memphis
The Narcissism of the Angry Young Men
We’ve Lost the Plot
The Existential Wonder of Space
FEBRUARY
The GOP Is Just Obnoxious
Do They Not Know He’ll Betray Them?
The Slow-Motion Murder of Mikheil Saakashvili
The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme
American Christianity is Due for a Revival
The Grammys Are Built on a Delusion
The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
How Biden Successfully Baited Congressional Republicans
How Florida Beat New York
The Catch-24 of Replacing Joe Biden
America Has Gone Too Far in Legalizing Vice
Go Ahead and Ban My Book
‘They Didn’t Understand Anything, but Just Spoiled People’s Lives’
Requiem for the Spartans
America’s Teenage Girls Are Not Okay
What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID
I Never Truly Understood Fox News Until Now
Why the Tesla Recall Matters
Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope
The Autocrat Next Door
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Civil War
The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are And How Old You Think You Are
No Time for Funeral Rites
MAGA Is the Mullet of Politics
How My Wife and I Took Back Our Sundays
The Case for a Primary Challenge to Joe Biden
The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever
MARCH
The Reason the Recession Hasn’t Happened Yet
The FBI Desperately Wants to Let Trump Off the Hook
Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?
Low-Wage Jobs Are Becoming Middle-Class Jobs
The New Anarchy
A Troubling Sign for 2024
I Teach International Relations. I Think We’re Making a Mistake in Ukraine.
The Topic Biden Keeps Dodging
Trump Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Is Now Everyone’s Problem
The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere
The Oscars Got This One Right
Is Ron DeSantis Flaming Out Already?
You Should Be Outraged About Silicon Valley Bank
The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
The Four Quadrants of American Politics
This Is Not Great News for Donald Trump
The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies
The Malthusians Are Back
What Really Broke the Banks
Donald Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right
In the Age of Ozempic, What’s the Point of Working Out?
Rule By Law in Florida
How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?
Netanyahu Flinched
The Only Realistic Answer to Putin
Ron DeSantis Chose the Wrong College to Take Over
An Astonishing, Frightening First for the Country
APRIL
Trump’s Legal Problems Are Putting the GOP in a Vise
Never Again Trump
Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse?
Trump’s Republican Rivals Are Missing an Obvious Opportunity
This Is Actually Quite Bad
How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures
Why The Government Is Good at Helping Banks but Not People
Make Wisconsin a Democracy Again
The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries
The Pornography Paradox
American Madness
It’s Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People
Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result
I Oversaw the Massachusetts Air National Guard. I Cannot Fathom How This Happened
The Problem With the Retirement Age Is That It’s Too High
The Myth of the Broke Millennial
This Country Will Break Our Hearts Again
The New Pro-life Movement Has a Plan to End Abortion
When the Media Bow to Trump
America Fails the Civilization Test
Chris Christie Doesn’t Want to Hear the Name Trump
Dianne Feinstein and the Cult of Indispensability
The Most Telling Moments From the Trump-Carroll Depositions
The Coming Biden Blowout
MAGA Is Ripping Itself Apart
Nikki Haley’s Dilemma Is Also the Republicans’ Problem
America Does Have a Way to Save Itself
Ron DeSantis’s Orwellian Redefinition of Freedom
MAY
Zelensky’s Plan to Defeat Russia – And Take Back Crimea
What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows
‘We’re All Worse Off’
The Outer Limits of Liberalism
A Country Governed by Fear
King Charles’s Absurd, Awe-Inspiring Coronation
Mob Justice
The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. Treasury
What Could Turn Biden’s Reelection Upside Down
On Ominous Warning to the E. Jean Carroll Jury
Entirely Unrepentant
The Abortion Absolutist
Why Dad’s Side of the Family Tends to Miss Out
the Lesson I Wish I Had Never Had to Learn About Motherhood
The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
Masha Gessen Resigns in Protest From PEN America Board
Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money
Why So Many Conservatives Feel Like Losers
Russia’s Rogue Commander Is Playing With Fire
ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete
The Most Dangerous Democrat in Iowa
The Roys Stumble Into the Real World
20 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
Four Forces Bind Trump’s Supporters More Tightly Than Ever
Colorado’s Ingenious Idea For Solving the Housing Crisis
The Hottest Trend in Investing Is Mostly a Sham
The Naturalistic Horror of The Little Mermaid
Make Russia Pay
Notes From a Cemetery
The Blue Strawberry Problem
Jack Teixeira Should Have Been Stopped Again and Again
JUNE
They Still Love Him
Inside the Meltdown at CNN
In Defense of Humanity
Inside Baseball’s Desperate Effort to Save Itself From Irrelevance.
Inside the Meltdown at CNN
Is Gen Z Coming for the GOP?
This Indictment Is Different
The Stupidest Crimes Imaginable
My God, This Is a Magical Country
A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality
The Threat From Trump’s Supporters Has Evolved
Trump Can’t Bluster His Way Through Court
Trump’s Bag Man
The Fake Poor Bride
Killer Whales Are Not Our Friends
‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’
Chris Christie, Liberal Hero
The Woman Who Bought a Mountain for God
How Deterrence Policies Create Border Chaos
Why Not Whitmer?
Has COVID’s Patient Zero Finally Been Named?
Russia Slides Into Civil War
Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap
The Candidate of the ‘Tucker-Rogan-Elon-Bannon-Combo-Platter Right’
Goodbye Ozempic
Stop Firing Your Friends
Curtailing Affirmative Action Is a Blow Against a Rising Generation
Dave Grohl’s Monument to Mortality
JULY
Elite Multiculturalism Is Over
The Never-Ending Debate Over Who Deserves to Be Rescued
The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go
Reclaiming Real American Patriotism
There’s No Such Thing as an RFK Jr. Voter
A Radical Idea for Fixing Polarization
Step Aside, Joe Biden
The Democrats Are Now America’s Conservative Party
Ron DeSantis’s Only Hope Is to Beat Trump From the Hard Right
Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat
It Turns Out That the Debt Matters After All
The Curious Personality Changes of Older Age
The Republican Lab-Leak Circus Makes One Important Point
FOMO Has Never Been Worse on the Internet
Why YIMBY Righteousness Backfires
Goodbye to the Prophets of Doom
Alabama Wants to Kill Jimi Barber
Is Tennessee a Democracy?
What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
The Long-Shot Candidate Who Has the White House Worried
Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast
The Wrong-Apartment Problem
Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall
Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?
A New Kind of Fascism
Art For Politics’ Sake
Fatigue Can Shatter a Person
Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights
The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church
AUGUST
The First Great Crisis of a Second Trump Term
The Triumph of the January 6 Committee
How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right
Putting Trump on the Couch
What the Best Places in America Have in Common
Why the Populist Right Hates Universities
The Ones We Sent Away
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
Is Ben Wikler the Most Important Democrat in America?
Is Trump Daring a Judge to Jail Him?
The Problem With Fox News Goes Way, Way Back
How America Got Mean
The Georgia Indictment Offers the Whole Picture
It’s Not Just Trump
Trump Discovers That Some Things Are Actually Illegal
Is Mississippi Really as Poor as Britain?
The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again
What the Polls May Be Getting Wrong About Trump
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Truth
Fear of an Awkward President
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
Party of One
The Mug Shot Is a Warning
New York Is Full
Where Donald Trump Meets Bernie Sanders
What Your Insurer Is Trying to Tell You About Climate Change
The Final Days
The End Will Come for the Cult of MAGA
SEPTEMBER
Retailers Bet Wrong on America’s Feelings About Stores
Why Biden Just Can’t Shake Trump in the Polls
What Really Happens When Americans Stop Going to Church
The Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Ideological Purity
How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind
What Were the Russians Doing in Chernobyl?
America Is Telling Itself a Lie About Roadkill
The China Model Is Dead
Ignore Jack Smith’s Critics
Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights Revolution
The 9/11 Speech That Was Never Delivered
Three Simple Rules for Protecting Your Data
I Never Called Her Momma
What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate
The Very Common, Very Harmful Thing Well-Meaning Parents Do
Nobody Should Care About a Woman’s ‘Body Count’
An Untold Story of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Bizarre Story Behind Shinzo Abe’s Assassination
America’s New Battlefront
Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet
The Patriot
The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal Government
Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley
How We Got ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’
Why Don’t We Just Build New Cities?
‘Every Time I Hear You, I Feel a Little Bit Dumber’
One Big Benefit of Remote Work
New York City Is Not Built for This
OCTOBER
Kevin McCarthy Finally Defies the Right
California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National
The College Backlash Is Going Too Far
Kevin McCarthy Got What He Deserved
Kevin McCarthy Got What He Wanted
Trump Goes Nuclear
Hamas starts war on Israel, captures and kills soldiers
This Will Be a Pyrrhic Victory for Hamas
Matt Gaetz Is Half Right
The Kamala Harris Problem
Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology
Against Barbarism
The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test
Inside Gaza’s Last Catholic Parish
Students for Programs in Israel
Newt Gingrich’s Degraded Legacy
China Changed Its Mind About World War II
The Threat to Democracy Is Coming From Inside the U.S. House
Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Handbook Says to ‘Kill the Difficult Ones’ and Use Hostages as ‘Human Shields’
Another Domino Falls in Georgia
The End of Netanyahu
Why Israeli Officials Screened Footage of the Hamas Attack
I Don’t See a Better Way Out
‘You Started a War, You’ll Get a ‘Nakba’
America is Lucky Biden’s in Charge
Dean Phillips Has a Warning for Democrats
The Decolonization Narrative is Dangerous and False
The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy
The Solar-Panel Backlash is Here
NOVEMBER
Israel’s Dangerous Delusion
What the 2024 Election is Really About for Trump Supporters
Here’s What Biden Can Do to Change His Grim Polling
‘There Will Probably Be a Cease-Fire. And Then They Will Just Be Names’
‘An Existential Threat to American Higher Education’
Donald Trump’s Gift to Adam Schiff
A Knife Fight in a Phone Booth
Republicans Can’t Figure It Out
‘Nothing Is Going to Stop Donald Trump’
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
Albert Brooks Everlasting
The False Binary in Higher Ed
Why Is America Afraid of Black History?
Hamas Must Go
Why Activism Leads to So Much Bad Writing
Elon Musk’s Disturbing ‘Truth’
The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman
The Other Ozempic Revolution
Inside the Chaos at Open AI
There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America
The Money Always Wins
There Shall Be None to Make Him Afraid
How Biden Might Recover
Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House
My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump
Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared
DECEMBER
Ron DeSantis Debates His Grievances
The Fall of Sports Illustrated
What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University
A Warning
The Atlantic 10
Trump Says He’ll Be a Dictator on ‘Day One’
The Sanctions Against Russia Are Starting to Work
Trump Voters Are America Too
Modern Britain Is a Scene From Slow Horses
What Does the Working Class Really Want?
Why the GOP Doesn’t Really Want a Deal n Ukraine and the Border
Why This Math Professor Objects to Diversity Statements
The Death of a Gun-Rights Warrior
Why Trump Won’t Win
The Myth of the Unemployed College Grad
They Do It for Trump
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023
The Colorado Supreme Court Just Gave Republicans a Chance to Save Themselves
The Colorado Ruling Changed My Mind
A Christmas Eve Murder That Has Never Been Solved
Arlington’s Civil War Legacy is Finally Laid to Rest
The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
The 25 Best Podcasts of 2023
81 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2023
America Should Be More Like Operation Warp Speed
Electric Cars Are Already Upending America
Suddenly, Trump is Interested in Democracy