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Spend time with our reading list on an “impossible” disease outbreak in the Alps, why grandparents are reaching their limit, and more.

The president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them.

The technology is genuinely useful for scientific discovery, but its applications are less dramatic than you might think.

Officials were developing a plan to get him back to the United States. Why did they stop?

Sinners has made a splash at the box office, but analysts want to focus on the money it isn’t making.

Mourners of Pope Francis gathered at the Vatican, scenes from the the second weekend of Coachella 2025, a humanoid-robot half-marathon in China, and much more

Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

The Founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross.

Imagine a surveillance state powerful enough to incarcerate people for the wrong dreams. In 2025, it doesn’t feel like such a leap.

The blueprint for Trump 2.0 predicted much of what we’ve seen so far—and much of what’s to come.