Arts, film, literature, society, and the forces shaping how we live.
Fifty-five World Heritage Sites now sit in active war zones. The agency that catalogues civilization has no plan to protect it — and prefers not to discuss why.
Twenty-three percent of men under thirty report no close friendships. The question is not why they are angry, but who taught them to monetise it.
Major labels want AI licensing revenue. Independent artists want their work back. The Copyright Office wants more time. History suggests we've seen this before.
Western institutions have perfected the art of apologizing for colonial theft while keeping the stolen goods. The logic is exquisite.
In Japan's fastest-shrinking region, one woman has delivered three generations of families. Now she watches the maternity ward empty.
Somewhere between the self-help and the hate, a generation of young men learned to call their alienation a philosophy. The architecture was always commercial.
In the six years since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates, the sports betting industry has spent $3.2 billion on advertising and embedded itself so deeply in American athletics that the line between watching sport and wagering on it has all but vanished.
From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil, religious-political fusion now shapes governance for 4.2 billion people. The implications for democracy are profound.
New data from a decade-long Harvard study reveals that young men's social networks have collapsed to near-zero — and the political, psychological, and cultural consequences are reshaping societies from America to South Korea.