American Chronicles A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick. August 31, 2026 Michael Lee Horrocks believes that, during the pandemic, Leah Stelly went down a TikTok rabbit hole and never came out. “I feel like I’m living in crazy town,” he said.Illustration

When he was the director of international student services at Syracuse University, Juan Tavares received a regular Saturday email from the dean of admissions reporting the tally of student applications, acceptances and enrollment deposits. During the pandemic the numbers began to slide, so Tavares offered the admissions team seven suggestions

Updated at 4:34 p.m. ET on August 28, 2026 The hard-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker warned Jewish Americans last week that their excessive identification with Israel would subject them to anti-Semitic attacks. “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually

The classic checklist for psychopathy was developed in 1980 by Prof Robert Hare, who is still the recognised giant of the territory. The 20 traits, which ranged from pathological lying to a lack of empathy, were based entirely on prison populations. This worked because not only did Hare have the

Hartmut Rosa (Lörrach, Alemania, 1959), uno de los intelectuales europeos más influyentes, se mueve como un adolescente más en el campus de verano que dirige. Rosa reúne cada agosto en el pueblo de Schwäbisch Gmünd, desde hace 27 años, a un centenar de jóvenes alemanes para debatir cuestiones de filosofía

Essay My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones. August 28, 2026 Illustration by Derek Abella In the fall of 2024, in the Beinecke Rare Book and

MAGA world is angry. Again. The target this time is Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator from Georgia. At a reelection rally in Atlanta on August 16, Ossoff was attacking President Trump over the Iran war when he pivoted to a more personal attack on the commander in chief. “The president

This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R. Smith reports that letters, newly obtained by members of the press, contradict Kennedy’s repeated assertions to members of Congress in early 2025 during his confirmation process

Global Notes The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic. August 27, 2026 Photograph by Florian Gaertner / Photothek / Getty In February, 2025, I met with a delegation of Canadian ministers visiting Washington, D.C. Their aim

In a London pub, Greg Double was brutally confronted with the reality of Britain’s evolving tipping culture. “I was annoyed about the pint being eight quid, but then when you put service on top, it’s absolutely criminal,” he says. In the past, you might have told the bar staff to

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own. The story may not be over. Donald Trump is notorious

Last night, at exactly 9:25—9 to 5—the top of the Empire State Building in New York City lit up pink. The antennas of Chicago’s Willis Tower—formerly the Sears Tower—lit up pink, too. So did the Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier, which also sported a giant pink heart. The

Este verano, en cuestión de semanas, las mayores compañías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han anunciado, una tras otra, que habían sorprendido a sus modelos haciendo cosas que nadie les había pedido, incluso que les habían prohibido: han entrado en sistemas de otras empresas, se han organizado en “enjambres”, tal y

Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was seen as unthinkable. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking about the trade dispute

August 2026 How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We're like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine its model of what a promising founder looks like, you probably

In a London pub, Greg Double was brutally confronted with the reality of Britain’s evolving tipping culture. “I was annoyed about the pint being eight quid, but then when you put service on top, it’s absolutely criminal,” he says. In the past, you might have told the bar staff to

Listen to this post: Log in to listen While not every Western followed the cliché, by the 1930s cowboy serials had landed on a consistent visual cue: the hero of the show wore a white hat, and the villain wore a black one. At the end of the day, however,

Este verano, en cuestión de semanas, las mayores compañías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han anunciado, una tras otra, que habían sorprendido a sus modelos haciendo cosas que nadie les había pedido, incluso que les habían prohibido: han entrado en sistemas de otras empresas, se han organizado en “enjambres”, tal y

You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to. I’ll explain. This past Sunday, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia—who has become quite good at delivering viral campaign sound bites, slickly filmed by multiple cameras—unleashed a blistering indictment of President Trump’s leadership. Ossoff, a former documentary

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing of a transformer and a transistor. But the transistor deserves its own headline, because it's maybe