There’s a good chance you’ve never actually seen a film from a woman’s point of view.

For decades, mainstream storytelling has been shaped by a largely masculine narrative logic: linear progression, cause and effect, escalating stakes, resolution. It is clean, structured and goal-oriented. The universal “hero’s journey.” Even when ...Read more

Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America. According to the Government Accountability Office, between 18% and 20% of U.S. workers are covered by one. From artificial intelligence organizations to sandwich shops, employees have been left unable to leave for competing ...Read more

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it.

In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evolving toward something better. I believed in that evolution. I believed that democracy, if nurtured, could become more inclusive than the one it started as.

That belief stayed...Read more

When will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist? How many people will fall ill with measles this year? Will President Donald Trump be impeached?

Today, you can bet on all of these — and much more — at the websites of booming prediction markets. Their meteoric rise in just the last year is deeply troubling, and state Attorney General...Read more

About a year ago my friend John died, alone in his house.

John was a 62-year-old divorced doctor. At a spring party the day before his death, he mentioned to some friends that he hadn’t been feeling quite right — some dizziness, some forgetfulness. One friend asked if he had seen a doctor, and his answer was, “Yes. Myself.” After a ...Read more

The close relationship between the U.S. and Israel has become foreboding for both nations.

That’s evident in a Pew Research Center poll, a month into President Donald Trump’s unprovoked war in alliance with Israel, which has led to an alarming shift in U.S. public opinion.

Sixty percent of U.S. adults view Israel unfavorably, compared to ...Read more

To tell you the truth, America’s 47th president was apparently way more than just peeved at his vice president after the first round of the Iran war ceasefire talks suddenly collapsed in Islamabad, Pakistan.

And you could tell President Donald Trump was really not pleased because he didn’t even bother to conceal it from us the way his ...Read more

From the ultra-deep waters of Brazil’s Santos Basin to the arid shale fields of Argentina’s Patagonia, a new hydrocarbon boom is welling up across Latin America.

About 44% of global crude supply growth between 2025 and 2030 is expected to come from Brazil, Guyana, Argentina and Venezuela, according to consultancy Rystad Energy. Together, ...Read more

News cycles this year have been a relentless parade of hard knocks, and April has been no exception. But last weekend, the people of Hungary delivered good news. They came out in record numbers, with nearly 80% participation, to decisively vote out Viktor Orbán, the country’s long-standing illiberal prime minister. The opposition Tisza party ...Read more

President Donald Trump trekked to Las Vegas on Thursday to tout last year’s “no-taxes-on tips” reform. His appearance represents an attempt by the White House to highlight the administration’s economic accomplishments — under fierce attack from Democrats — heading into the vital November midterms.

A recent Quinnipiac poll found that...Read more

Every once in a while, an advance in treating cancer is so stunning that doctors get chills. Such is the case for Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic cancer therapy daraxonrasib, which in a late-stage study allowed patients with advanced disease to live twice as long as those who only received chemotherapy.

That’s an astounding advance for a ...Read more

It feels like an eternity, but it was only a decade ago when the political center-left was still for “all of the above” energy sources: fossil fuels and renewables alike. It was the not-so-distant days of Barack Obama, when the U.S. president defended fracking as a force for good, saying there wasn’t a trade-off “between our environment ...Read more

American Airlines was marking its centennial on Wednesday with celebrations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the giant carrier’s other hubs. We would imagine Scott Kirby’s 100th birthday invitation got lost in the mail.

That’s because the famously competitive Kirby spoiled American’s birthday party by casually ...Read more

It seems like a simple ask that male politicians don’t sexually harass or even rape women, but also, it seems like an open secret in Congress that sexual misconduct is too common.

Take Eric Swalwell, whose epic political immolation has captivated this week’s national political news, including a TMZ-obtained video of the then-congressman ...Read more

The president has repeatedly mocked Gov. Gavin Newsom for being dyslexic. It’s a cheap shot, but it’s also proof of something more deeply troubling: an entrenched and damaging assumption that people who struggle to read, write or organize their thoughts are somehow less capable, less intelligent or less worthy of leadership.

That assumption...Read more

Americans could be forgiven if they're unaware that President Donald Trump recently performed one of his most essential tasks and sent his annual budget request to Congress, though months late and stunningly incomplete.

After all, so much else has been dominating the news lately: the Mideast war that Trump promised not to start. Price rises he'...Read more

“If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ability to produce evocative images remains unrivaled.

Artemis II, NASA’s just-concluded lunar mission, will be remembered for many things, ...Read more

It’s almost like a bizarre political science experiment: Just how many unpopular policies can one president pursue? From starting a war with Iran to threatening Greenland to building a new White House ballroom, President Donald Trump’s unshackled second-term priorities are compounding the mounting electoral risk for his party in November’s...Read more

Prior to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, opponents raised alarms about the severe and immediate harms that would surely occur if marriages between same-sex couples were recognized nationally. Afterward, when those harms failed to materialize, those voices grew quieter, but some have been returning with renewed vigor, in hopes ...Read more