Education

The remnants of Hurricane Helene were not the only factor that contributed to the severity of the flooding in Asheville, North Carolina.

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and ... positive ... consequences.

Gaining strength in the early 2000s, the New Atheism movement was fueled by a fear of Christian fundamentalism and a belief that secularism was under attack.

Robin Robertson’s new translation of a modern epic—first published, in Swedish, fifty years ago—traverses the shifting borders and legacies of a world at war.

Caltech’s website touted the online program, and the school’s orange logo appeared on the promised certificates of completion. “I was just like, ‘Ah, man, this has got to be legit,’” said Mr.

When Malcolm Gladwell’s good friend Jacob Weisberg sug­gested he update his best­selling first book, The Tipping Point, a quarter of a century after its publication, Gladwell was sceptical.

This is an excerpt from issue no. 154, “Love, Interrupted.” Ashwini Naidu knew when her car was going over the Golden Gate Bridge, because the rumble of the pavement beneath her changed. She sat in the passenger seat, fully reclined, and clenched her eyes shut.

The assault on LGBTQ people from right wing Republicans continues unabated. In 2024 alone, 527 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the U.S. attacking the rights of queer people, and especially transgender people.

I’ve met a few others who do the same or something similar. A teacher I know likes to start every new year by writing her obituary or what she hopes it will look like by year’s end. Another friend writes hers on Rosh Hashana.