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The Highlight

Mud libraries hold the story of the Earth’s climate past — and foretell its future

By Byrd Pinkerton

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How to talk to a loved one about their health

By Allie Volpe

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Why do we keep tabs on people we can’t stand?

By Angel Martinez

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Why stop at the four-day workweek?

By Oshan Jarow

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Baby boomers are aging. Their kids aren’t ready.

By Anna North

A surprisingly radical proposal: Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier

By Sigal Samuel

The surprising scientific weirdness of glass

By Brian Resnick

The art of quitting

By Allie Volpe

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

By Whizy Kim

The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change

By Rachel DuRose

Take the visitor’s approach to exploring your own city

By Allie Volpe

What happened to the family doctor?

By Dylan Scott

The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever

By Andrew Prokop

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What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?

By Marina Bolotnikova

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What the stories we tell about robots tell us about ourselves

By Constance Grady

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Can AI learn to love — and can we learn to love it? 

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.

By Sigal Samuel

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What will love and death mean in the age of machine intelligence?

By Tahmima Anam

How to deal with racial trauma, according to Black experts

By Kenya Hunter, Capital B

Discrimination everywhere

By Vox and Capital B

What’s behind Black women’s excessive rate of fibroids?

By Akilah Wise, Capital B

AI automated discrimination. Here’s how to spot it.

By A.W. Ohlheiser

We need to rethink discipline in schools

By Jonquilyn Hill

How cars fuel racial inequality

By Marin Cogan

Discrimination isn’t just infuriating. It steals Black people’s time.

By Sean Collins and Izzie Ramirez

A racist society is detrimental to your health 

By Margo Snipe, Capital B

Everything old is new again

By Julia Rubin, Alanna Okun, and 2 more

The billionaire’s guide to self-help

By Whizy Kim

Crypto is the same fraud, different package

By Emily Stewart

From banning hugs to gentle parenting, how are you supposed to raise kids, anyway?

By Anna North

The return of the porn wars

By Constance Grady

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There’s no such thing as a new idea — just ask the Little Mermaid

By Alissa Wilkinson

The 100-year-old mistake that’s reshaping the American West

By Samantha Oltman, Brian Resnick, and 2 more

These 8 species depend on the Colorado River. What happens as it dries up?

By Benji Jones

The devil lurking in the dust

By Keren Landman

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? 

By Bryan Walsh

Let’s talk about the biggest cause of the West’s water crisis

By Kenny Torrella

You — yes, you — are going to pay for the century-old mistake that’s draining the Colorado River

By Benji Jones

The worst-case scenario for drought on the Colorado River

By Umair Irfan

Native American histories show rebuilding is possible — and necessary — after catastrophe

By B.L. Blanchard

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How will we feed Earth’s rising population? Ask the Dutch.

The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale.

By Kenny Torrella

Why the news is so negative — and what we can do about it

By Dylan Matthews

We need the right kind of climate optimism

By Hannah Ritchie

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Against doomerism

It’s boom times for doom times but there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.

By Bryan Walsh

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Some brand names have long perpetuated racism. Black Lives Matter is changing that.

The Cleveland Indians are reportedly the latest group preparing to abandon a stereotypical name, following the Washington Redskins and Aunt Jemima this summer.

By Allegra Frank