The Accidental Wine Educator
The history of wine in the United States owes a lot to something of a happy accident. In 1970, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic of The …
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How Labor and Robots Can Coexist
Some people on the political right love robots and hate labor unions. Some people on the political left are the opposite: They hate robots and …
Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
America’s welfare programs were created with a noble purpose: to help those who needed them most — our seniors, individuals with disabilities, pregnant women and low-income families with children. In recent years, though, these welfare programs have …
An Electrifying View of the Heart of the Milky Way
Noise and chaos reign at the heart of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, or so it appears in an astonishing image captured recently by astronomers …
Treating Addiction as a Crime Doesn’t Work. What Oregon Is Doing Just Might.
Morgan Godvin arrived at the Multnomah County Inverness jail in Oregon in June 2013. She had volunteered to be locked up during a drug-court …
Got Climate Doom? Here’s What You Can Do to Actually Make a Difference
Produced by ‘The Argument’ It’s no wonder so many people feel helpless about averting climate catastrophe. This is the era of dire warnings from …
The Lessons of Brooklyn Tech
For many years I lived across the street from Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan’s elite public school, and I would sometimes get a ride from a …
Can We Ask a Disabled Woman to Leave Our Pickleball Group?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to exclude a player who can’t keep up.
Here’s What 7 Americans Think of Trump’s First 100 Days
The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have been a whirlwind of action, with the imposition of steep tariffs worldwide, the detention of immigrants and deep cuts to the federal work force. The New York Times has been talking with a group …
Josh Hawley and the Republican Obsession With Manliness
Senator Josh Hawley is worried about men. In a recent speech at the National Conservatism Conference, he blamed the left for their mental health …