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It’s so bad now even Mike Huckabee is recoiling.

How can you know if you truly want to be a parent?

We can learn a lot from what the camera did to painting.

Feisty children can be exhausting. They also possess a moral fire that deserves cultivating.

Why are American leftists so reluctant to confront the meat industry?

If you’re about 30 seconds away from completely losing your cool with a family member, read this.

And what happened when a nutrition influencer dared to eat tofu.

How to think about what’s best for your child — and for all the other children, too.

Cooperation enables humans to reshape entire environments and build complex societies. Although often celebrated, cooperation also has hidden costs. B…

Immigrant or not, Trump’s mass deportation pledges have fundamentally changed how regular people live.

The economic shocks may well be coming, but we have already entered an age of profound uncertainty about ourselves and the world around us.

Abstract. This paper explores the degree of discrimination faced by Roma home-seekers, who are members of the largest ethnic minority group in Europe. We first measure the extent of ethnic discriminat...

A new special topics course will explore one of the world’s most influential cultural movements through the lens of psychological science.

AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in social life, offering accessible companionship. While brief interactions have been shown to provide immediate…

I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

The success of other countries shows these programs can work in the United States.

Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal form?

Knowing more about conflict can bring communities closer—when people feel safe talking about it.

The unbearable hypocrisy of pro-gun conservatives defending the Minneapolis killing.

The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature.

An existential mystery

Changes in social media and private messaging are making communication feel like content to consume.

Are we too quick to agree on the dangers of consensus?

Issue 187: Today over a million people are cheering on the NYC Marathon runners. We explain why we cheer on strangers.

Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

It’s become controversial. Here’s how to really think about it.

The mental machinery that helps us spread rumors also helps us thrive in an interconnected world.

Many used to worry about China’s power over the app — but American control is troubling, too.

The writer and podcast host on the Charlie Kirk discourse, Barack Obama’s distance from politics, Bari Weiss’s Gaza coverage, and the Democratic Party’s future.

The contradictions at the heart of this fundamental right in democracies.

When we see ourselves in the context of wonder, it makes us humbler.

Is our era of extreme partisanship to blame?

The mayoral candidate’s new proposal spotlights a flaw in progressive thought.

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

The emergence of humor so early in life suggests something important about human nature.

When men lack the skills to build intimacy, their relationships — and well-being — suffer.

We bemoan the injustice of being left on read. But perhaps missed connection is just a part of being a human on the internet.

The show captures disastrous custard-making, quintessentially British faux-modesty, and the blistering hubris of bakers—including me.

Pumpkin spice is America’s most hatable seasonal flavor. Why

Third-party punishment is theorized by some scholars to be essential to the evolution of large-scale cooperation, but empirically, it often fails t...

Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?