IdeasWhat an Hour Tells You
The Supreme Court rewrote the Voting Rights Act. One hour later, Florida had a new map.
Long-form writing on culture, language, history, and the ideas that shape how we think about the second half of life.
IdeasThe Supreme Court rewrote the Voting Rights Act. One hour later, Florida had a new map.
IdeasSomeone decided a tablet was the answer. The question is whether anyone asked what the problem was.
IdeasA Planned Parenthood clinic in Sacramento started offering Botox at nine dollars a unit. The story isn't about Botox.
IdeasA bookseller's list of books that were waiting for you to catch up.
At LargeI have forty-seven passwords and the memory of a woman who found her reading glasses in the refrigerator.
IdeasYour phone has 14,000 photos in it. Finding the one you want shouldn't require a degree in library science.
IdeasThe S&P 500 hit a record high the same week consumer sentiment hit a 74-year low. Both numbers were accurate. That might be the problem.
From the EditorTwo weeks in, and the thing that surprised me most was not the writing. It was the reading.
IdeasSomeone decided what kind of phone you can handle. They were probably wrong.
IdeasA federal judge said the government can't defund public media to punish speech. Congress had already done it anyway.
IdeasThree thousand one hundred events in all fifty states. But the number that matters is fifty-three.
IdeasA bookseller who has read thousands of memoirs on what makes one true, what makes one false, and why the one you haven't started yet might matter more than you think.
IdeasThe prescription was invented. The hobbies are just the product.
At LargeI have been scanning my own groceries for six years now, and nobody has offered me a performance review.
Reading ListA bookseller's case for three novels that tell the truth about what it means to have lived long enough to know things.
IdeasThe phrase was invented to honor people like us. It has mostly been used to sort us.
IdeasThe age 65 was not discovered. It was decided. Here is who decided it, and when, and why.
IdeasA retired math teacher in Terre Haute asked a simple question. I spent two years trying to answer it.
IdeasFor decades, scientists measured the wrong things and called it a study of aging.
IdeasThe show moves fast. The damage moves slow. That's always been the arrangement.