JANUARY
2023, in 7 minutes
24 things we think will happen in 2024
2024 is the biggest global election year in history
The Fifth Circuit just made it even more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state
Could this obscure tax idea reshape American housing?
The Supreme Court’s new, nightmare abortion cases, explained
The Golden Globes are (just barely) making a comeback. Here’s what to expect.
Yes, everyone is sick right now. So what can you do about it?
Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality?
Nikki Haley, the one candidate who could still make the GOP primary kinda interesting, explained
3 winners and 2 losers from the fifth Republican debate
What Democrats’ panic over young voters misses
The Iowa caucuses only matter because people believe they matter
How Iowa accidentally became the start of the presidential rat race
1 winner and 3 losers from the Iowa caucuses
The Supreme Court is running away from transgender rights cases
How cyber scams are drawing China into Myanmar’s civil war
Why have our winters gotten so weird?
The GOP is moderating – and coming unhinged
What the conspiracy theory about Nikki Haley’s citizenship is really about
Is Nikki Haley a moderate or a conservative? Yes.
How a Haley presidency would be better – and worse – than Trump
2 winners and 2 losers from the New Hampshire primary
No, DEI isn’t making airplanes fall apart
It’s not your imagination. There has been more war lately.
The legal fight over whether Texas can seize control of the border, explained
We don’t have much money, but want to improve our lives. Where do we start?
A guide to health care providers, from doctors to nurse practitioners
Would the US intervene to defend Taiwan? Ask Japan
We can still make a good economy much better
FEBRUARY
The chances that Trump will be a convicted felon by Election day have dropped
How Nevada botched its key role in the GOP primary
Are you catastrophizing? Here’s how to stop assuming the worst.
What does the EGOT even mean, anyway?
Abortion rights groups don’t want to “restore Roe.” but they won’t fight Biden on it
All the tangled conflicts in the Middle East, explained
Biden invested big in more tax audits. A new IRS analysis claims it’s working.
Can Colorado disqualify Trump from its ballot? 4 ways the Supreme Court might rule.
Trump’s rumored VP shortlist, explained
What if public housing were for everyone?
Taylor Swift, the NFL, and two routes to cultural dominance
Yes, Democrats, it’s Biden or bust
The race to replace George Santos, explained
What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong
Trump’s big day in court
US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?
How to handle the winter blues, no matter where you live
How Israel’s war went wrong
The US is ready to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Does it matter?
American drivers are now even more distracted by their phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring.
Alabama’s IVF warning to the country
The South Carolina primary is a joke. It tells us something deadly serious.
Is oat milk unhealthy? That’s the wrong question.
This ballot measure would restore Roe. Abortion rights groups are attacking it.
Why elite colleges are bringing the SAT back
Black Nazis? A woman pope? That’s just the start of Google’s AI problem
How Mitch McConnell broke Congress
MARCH
Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible
The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump
The anti-abortion playbook for restricting birth control
4 ways to file your taxes for free
Bored with Biden and Trump? Here are 3 Super Tuesday primaries to watch.
Caught between Trump and Putin, are European countries ready to go nuclear?
Can you change what you crave?
Are Biden and the Democrats finally turning on Israel?
The media’s coverage of Biden’s age needs a rethink
I’m an expert on the end of the world. The Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer made me cry in terror.
7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars
The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law
What’s a Saturn return – and why are our favorite pop stars singing about it?
The tropical disease that’s suddenly everywhere
How to think about Boeing’s recent safety issues
The Supreme Court’s puzzling decision to allow the government to ban drag shows, explained
17 astounding scientific mysteries that researchers can’t yet solve
Could a gambling “error” cost you March Madness?
Brett Kavanaugh rides to the Biden administration’s defense in a big First Amendment case
Reddit is going public. Will its unruly user base revolt?
3 theories for why Donald Trump’s popularity is rising
Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones
Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis is part of a frightening global trend
The battle for blame over a deadly terror attack in Moscow
The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?
Why IVF looks different in the US than in the rest of the world
The Baltimore bridge collapse is only the latest – and least – of global shipping’s problems
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse
The crisis that could bring down Benjamin Netanyahu, explained
Could Republican resignations flip the House to Democrats?
The harrowing “Quiet on Set” allegations, explained
APRIL
You can’t afford to buy a house. Biden knows that.
How did the cost of food delivery get so high?
Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves
Trump has set up a perfect avenue for potential corruption
The solar eclipse is a critical test for the US power grid
The right-wing scammers who paved the way for Trump
The Western visuals of Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, decoded
The total solar eclipse is returning to the United States – better than before
The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions
Are young voters really embracing Donald Trump?
The untold story of Arab Jews – and their solidarity with Palestinians
Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.
Don’t sneer at white rural voters – or delude yourself about their politics
How Trump’s hush money trial went from an afterthought to the main event
Tucker Carlson went after Israel – and his fellow conservatives are furious
The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explained
The endless quest to replace alcohol
Tell the truth about Biden’s economy
Will AI mean the end of liberal democracy?
The indoorsy person’s guide to the great outdoors
The “feminist” case against having sex for fun
How the overturn of Roe v. Wade sparked a new campaign for abortion rights across Europe
How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar
Canada’s polite Trumpism
How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history
The failed promise of egg freezing
Why we keeps seeing egg prices spike
MAY
Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit.
Cholera is making a comeback – and the world doesn’t have enough vaccines
The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington
The lessons from colleges that didn’t call the police
How lip gloss became the answer to Gen Z’s problems
How the Met Gala became the fashion Oscars
What does divesting from Israel really mean?
Israel and Hamas aren’t that far apart in ceasefire talks
The US paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Is it a real shift in policy?
The Trump hush money case has been a quiet affair. Enter Stormy Daniels.
Inside the bombshell scandal that prompted two Miss USAs to step down
America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts
The 9 worst decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary
The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explained
The crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists shows why the left needs free speech
What young voters actually care about
The unionization fight is coming to the South
The controversy over Gaza’s death toll, explained
The known unknowns about Ozempic, explained
If Trump wins, what would hold him back?
The Republican Party’s man inside the Supreme Court
Inside India’s secret campaign to threaten and harass Americans
The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert
3 theories for America’s anti-immigrant shift
The sundress discourse, explained
Red Lobster’s mistakes go beyond endless shrimp
The Comstock Act, The long-dead law Trump could use to ban abortion, explained
One explanation for the 2024 election’s biggest mystery
A new strategy to house homeless people
Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump’s conviction matters
JUNE
What ever happened to the war on terror?
What to know about Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s likely next president
This changed everything
Trump wants the Supreme Court to Toss out his conviction. Will they?
It’s not Islamophobia, it’s anti-Palestinian racism
Is Hunter Biden being prosecuted because of politics?
The failure of the college president
India just showed the world how to fight an authoritarian on the rise
The golden age of retail loyalty programs is here
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now
It’s time to rethink what counts as a “safe car”
The truth about Hunter Biden’s conviction
The Christian right is coming for divorce next
How Trump gets away with being so old
The Supreme Court just effectively legalized machine guns
Is anybody watching the same TV shows anymore?
We need a better way to measure deadly heat
There’s a secret wildlife wonderland hidden in the US – and it’s in danger
Biden’s big immigration gamble
The hollowness of corporate Pride
What this summer’s age-gap escapist fantasies are missing about romance and middle age
If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not.
The best plan to help refugees might also be the simplest
What two years without Roe look like, in 8 charts
Why this year’s Hajj was so deadly
We rewatched the 2020 Trump-Biden debates. There’s so much we didn’t see coming.
4 reasons why the Biden-Trump debate could actually matter
2 winners and 2 losers from the first Biden-Trump debate
Will Biden be the nominee? 3 scenarios for what’s next.
There is no one weird health hack
JULY
Why does Spotify want me to listen to Sabrina Carpenter so bad?
How did it go so wrong for Britain’s Conservatives?
What 6 degrees of warming means for a community built on ice
Why American politicians are so old
What the Labour Party’s big win in the UK will actually mean
In an ABC interview, Biden charts a course for Dems’ worst-case scenario
How the 1990s broke politics
Why the US had a violent crime spike during Covid – and other countries didn’t
Is it undemocratic to replace Bidon on the ticket?
What made Kamala Harris a failed candidate in 2020?
Heat is deadly. Why Does our culture push us to ignore it?
What Biden’s news conference did, and didn’t, clear up
Project 2025: The myths and the facts
America is not ready for what comes next
This is how you get escalation
How the Republican convention and Project 2025 work together
The crime wave is over but Republicans can’t let go
J.D. Vance’s radical plan to build a government of Trump loyalists
It’s Trump’s party now. Mostly.
The best books of the year (so far)
How should we sell psychedelics?
Harris isn’t her party’s best candidate. Biden was still right to endorse her.
Can Kamala Harris meme her way to becoming president?
What’s Kamala Harris’s Vision for America?
So what does Joe Biden do now?
How Kamala Harris could win (or lose) the Electoral College
The good, the bad, and the weird of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
How Marvel managed to upset Palestinian – and Israeli – fans
Trump’s extremism is (still) the biggest story of this election
The movement desperately trying to get people to have more babies
Would picking Josh Shapiro Actually help Harris in Pennsylvania
AUGUST
The rebirth of the #Resistance
Israel’s January 6 moment
An influencer is running for Senate. Is she just the first of many?
Skip the airport. It’s time to plan the perfect road trip.
What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?
Kamala Harris’s recent embrace of rent control, explained
How Tim Walz actually handled the George Floyd protests in Minnesota
“Trump is weird” will only get Kamala Harris so far
Is Tim Walz a progressive or a centrist — or both?
Tim Wals is riding the wave of the vibes election
What George Orwell’s 1984 can teach us about 2024
The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins
Trump and Harris agree on “no tax on tips.” They’re both wrong.
Trump’s campaign against pubic health is back on
What can be done about this Supreme Court’s very worst decisions?
What Kamala Harris and Beyonce have in common
I feel stuck in the middle class. Will a loan help me build generational wealth?
People are falling in love with – and getting addicted to – AI voices
This coral reef has given scientists hope for years. Now they’re worried.
How the DNC solved its Joe Biden problem
What Barack Obama’s DNC speech was actually about
Tim Walz is selling liberalism in conservative packaging
How a Beyonce rumor engulfed the DNC
Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.
US teacher strikes were good, actually
Why I changed my mind about volunteering
An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
How is Kamala Harris getting away with this?
Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me prescription drugs
Why a leading expert on gun violence is sounding alarms about the 2024 election
California’s governor has the chance to make AI history
SEPTEMBER
Democrats’ vibes are excellent. Can they turn that into votes?
Two astronauts are stranded in space. This one is jealous.
Electric vehicles are the future. What happens to our gas-guzzling cars?
Trump’s biggest fans aren’t who you think
Electric school buses are the future we deserve
The guessing game over Kamala Harris’s foreign policy
America’s love affair with the increasingly weird Kennedys
There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?
An extremely practical guide to this year’s cold, flue, and Covid season
Kamala Harris’s and Donald Trump’s wildly different tax plans, explained
How Kamala Harris goaded (and goaded and goaded) Trump into a debate trainwreck
How the GOP became the party of racist memes against Haitian immigrants
How Republicans became the party of raunch
The new followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception
America’s long history of anti-Haitian racism, explained
Who is Ryan Wesley Routh? The suspect in Trump Florida assassination attempt, explained
What happened to Nate Silver
Is my dentist scamming me?
The scary truth about how far behind American kids have fallen
America’s looming election crisis, explained in 3 charts
Agatha All Along is a Marvel Show you don’t have to do homework for
I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong?
Trump’s latest push to steal a Nebraska electoral vote appears to have flopped
Has Harris pulled ahead of Trump? The state of the 2024 polls, explained
The Republican Party is less white than ever. Thank Donald Trump.
OpenAI as we knew it is dead
The cultural power of the anti-woke tech bro
Don’t use Venmo as your checking account
America keeps choosing poverty – but it doesn’t have to
OCTOBER
What’s going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane Helene, explained
The only moment from the VP debate that mattered
What the death of Hezbollah’s leader means for the Middle East
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
An Ebola-like virus is spreading in Rwanda. Why isn’t there an approved vaccine for Marburg?
We should call the Republican justices “Republicans” and not “conservatives”
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s troubled American conscience
How Hurricane Milton exploded into a terrifying Category 5 storm in just hours
Is FEMA messing up? An expert weighs in.
The shady origins of the climate haven myth
What if you can’t afford to flee a hurricane?
AI companies are trying to build god. Shouldn’t they get our permission first?
Trump impressions are mostly bad. The Apprentice pulls it off.
Fixing Social Security means raising taxes – and not just on the superrich
The rise — and fall? — of the New Progressive Economics
Miscarriages are incredibly common. Abortion bans have made them less safe.
Kamala Harris and the problem with ceding the argument
The Democrats’ pro-union strategy has been a bust
The entire Texas government is fighting over whether to save a man’s life
Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?
I left my religion. Should I still raise my kid with it?
Elon Musk says he’s giving away $1 million a day to voters. Is that legal?
If Harris loses, expect Democrats to move right
Why food recalls are everywhere right now
How “Trump is a fascist” became Kamala’s closing argument
How dudes with podcasts became the kings of the election
Elon Musk is Trump’s biggest booster – and patron. Why?
The Architect: Stephen Miller’s dark agenda for a second Trump term
MAGA’s closing argument: Racist attacks on a critical bloc of swing-state voters
Kamala Harris’s closing message might be a mistake
Gen Z is shocked by Trump’s Access Hollywood video. We should be, too.
NOVEMBER
Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care
The Supreme Court decides not to toss out thousands of Pennsylvania ballots
It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy
Are Black voters drifting from Democrats? It’s complicated.
What the final polls show about the 2024 presidential election
Why is Trump winning? 3 things we know so far.
One striking pattern hidden in the election results
4B, the protest movement that boycotts men, explained
A Trump second term could bring another family separation crisis
Does being woke do any good?
Trump’s tariffs could tank the economy. Will the Supreme Court stop them?
43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.
The election was a loss for Palestinians – and not just because Trump won
Matt Gaetz, Trump’s uniquely unqualified pick for attorney general, explained
Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does
The left’s comforting myth about why Harris lost
Trump may start his second term with a stunning power grab
I saw the Hurricane Helene response up close. This is how disaster relief actually works.
Why so many families are “drowning in toys”
It’s probably time you learned about the Costco Guys
Fearless journalism needs your support now more than ever
The myth that could cost Democrats the next election
The unexpected place that could become an immigration flashpoint under Trump
Why Elon Musk can never balance the budget, in one chart
Elon Musk and the age of shameless oligarchy
Trump’s tariff plan is an inflation plan
Trump’s win is part of a mysterious – and ominous – worldwide trend
No, FBI checks aren’t required for Trump’s nominees. Yes, It’s concerning.
Holiday movies are hornier than ever
DECEMBER
How did Elphaba become wicked? There’s a hidden message people keep missing.
A surprise solar boom reveals a fatal flaw in our climate change projections
Can Men and women still be friends?
I got malaria on purpose and so can you
I listened to hours of Trump’s FBI pick on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Oh boy.
Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year
The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care system
After 13 years of war, Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has been defeated. What comes next?
Too many people are killed by supersized cars. This new rule could help.
The slippery appeal of RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement
Why do people think Republicans are better for the economy?
Luigi Mangione and the blackpilling of America
Democrats’ problem with working-class voters is bigger than free trade
My family voted for Trump. How can we talk about politics without ruining the holidays?
How China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot
Trump’s for-profit presidency
Trump’s media lawsuits could do serious damage to America’s free press
You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods
House Republicans just exposed the limits of Trump’s power
What it means when someone says “he went to Turkey”
The long decline of the American death penalty, explained
Christmas With the Kranks explains everything wrong with pop culture now
The surprisingly selfish reason people give terrible gifts
9 actually good things that happened in 2024
LA thinks AI could help decide which homeless people get scarce housing – and which don’t
Sea witches? Castlecore? Our trend predictions for 2025.
Jimmy Carter’s legacy: A disappointing presidency, a remarkable post-presidency, explained
Elon Musk is on a collision course with Stephen Miller