How misogyny has become a unifying force on America’s right, spotlighting pastors, influencers and MAGA figures who oppose feminism, women’s political power and workplace equality, while pushing “traditional” gender hierarchies.
Thousands of “unregistered Americans” lack birth certificates or Social Security numbers after parents rejected government systems. Trapped in legal limbo, they cannot work, travel or bank. “I just want a normal life,” said 26-year-old Sam Bishop, born off-grid in New Hampshire.
Chinese-born engineers now dominate Silicon Valley’s AI boom, rising from math-olympiad classrooms and elite schools like Tsinghua and MIT to billion-dollar startups, Meta labs, and OpenAI rivalries. At NeurIPS 2025, Mandarin rivaled English as researchers chased AGI, fortunes, and status amid U.S.-China tensions, burnout fears, and fierce “involution” competition.
Historian Corey Robin reviews Sven Beckert’s sweeping history of capitalism, tracing its rise from medieval trade networks and slavery to empire, industrialization and neoliberalism. Robin argues Beckert proves capitalism grew through state violence, forced labor and global conquest, not free markets alone.
NYC spends over $1B yearly on special-education “Carter case” lawsuits reimbursing private tuition, therapy and legal fees. Most claims come from white families, sustaining a $90K-a-year private placement system.
A New York Times investigation details allegations of widespread sexual abuse against Palestinians by Israeli guards, soldiers and settlers. Survivors described rape, torture and threats, while rights groups cited systemic abuse, impunity and failed prosecutions.
America’s gerontocracy is reshaping democracy: Congress’s median age now exceeds 60, 2024 primary voters averaged 65, and Americans over 54 control 72% of wealth, fueling youth alienation and weakening confidence in representation.
Across US cities, public benches vanish—from Moynihan’s grand hall to subways and parks, leaving travelers and unhoused people on floors. Once civic symbols of welcome, they now reflect design, policing, and contested urban belonging.
At Boston’s Mass. and Cass, addicts vanish into tents, shelters and streets while families search desperately. Mothers track sons through Facebook groups, twins hunt sisters lost to fentanyl, and police admit survival itself can erase people for years.
As dementia consumed her 87-year-old father, journalist Ellen Barry watched a lost childhood memory return intact: a canary escaping in Chicago’s station in 1941. Neuroscientists later traced the episode to damage near his hippocampus, the brain’s memory center.
The Atlantic reports FBI Director Kash Patel handed out self-branded Woodford Reserve bourbon bottles—engraved “Ka$h Patel FBI Director” and “#9”—to agents and civilians, even on DOJ trips. Critics inside the FBI called the practice demoralizing, cultish and corrosive to bureau norms.
Rebecca “Becks,” 27, chronicled a DIY detox from kratom using SR-17018, an unapproved synthetic opioid compound bought online after Reddit hype. Experiment eased withdrawal, then spiraled into relapse, exposing the peril of self-testing lab-made drugs.
Each winter, tens of thousands migrate to Arizona’s Quartzsite desert, where a $180 permit buys seven months on public land. Rising rents, illness and job loss have turned vans and RVs into lifelines for America’s growing “economic refugee class.”
Gallup finds affordability still drives Americans’ financial anxiety: 31% cite inflation and high prices as their top concern, while 55% say their finances are worsening, the bleakest outlook since the Great Recession.
A ProPublica investigation found rising numbers of U.S. parents rejecting newborn vitamin K shots, despite decades of evidence that the injection prevents deadly bleeding. Babies without the shot face an 81-fold higher risk of fatal brain hemorrhages.
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the Republican Party, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook.
Lavinia and Michelle, born minutes apart in 1976, discovered at 45 they have different fathers—an ultra-rare case of heteropaternal superfecundation, with fewer than 20 known globally. DNA tests, arriving hours after their mother’s death, unraveled a painful past but revealed new families and fragile belonging.
In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner
In How to Be a Dissident (Crown, 2026), Gal Beckerman argues dissent emerges when belief and action diverge beyond tolerance. Across 10 traits, from Diogenes of Sinope to Alexei Navalny and Tiananmen’s “Tank Man,” he blends history and memoir, probing moral courage while leaving unresolved whether dissent is universal or shaped by circumstance.
In 1982, South African engineer Rodney Wilkinson smuggled four bombs into the Koeberg nuclear plant, armed them, and rode away. Acting against apartheid, he delayed launch by 18 months without casualties, then vanished, living anonymously for decades.