The world’s energy system has felt a series of dramatic shocks over the last few months—beginning with the ousting of Nicolás Maduro and continuing through…
Year: 2026
A Record-Breaking Spring Heat Wave Is Making Its Way Across the U.S. Here's What To Know
A historic March heat wave has brought record-breaking temperatures to almost 180 cities from the Midwest to the West Coast. Last weekend, parts of the…
SCOTUS Protected the Scouts’ Right to Exclude Me—And Their Right to Be Inclusive
I joined the Boy Scouts—today, known as Scouting America—when I was 8 years old. In 1990, days before my 20th birthday, the organization told me…
The Manosphere is Lying About Who Built Society
At one point in Netflix’s new documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, one of its central figures, Justin Waller, who founded a construction company at the…
Read TIME's Full Interview with SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell
On Feb. 13, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell sat down for an interview with TIME, just days after the company merged with xAI, making…
SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell Aims to Put AI on the Moon
There are 18 Starship spacecraft in various stages of construction arrayed across the 1-million-sq.-ft floor of the SpaceX factory in Starbase, Texas. Some of them…
How Americans Feel About the War With Iran, One Month In
About one month since the U.S. launched a war with Iran that shows little sign of abating as the two nations have proposed divergent peace…
Something Very Bad Takes Way Too Long to Happen
Netflix allows users to change the playback speed of its videos. I hate this feature. Timing, pace, and duration are crucial parts of audiovisual storytelling;…
America’s Confusing Relationship with Mutual Aid
In hard times, we tell a common story. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Tighten your belt. Sacrifice for the greater good. We hear it…
Meet Emily Gregory, the Democrat Who Flipped Trump’s Mar-a-Lago District
Democrat Emily Gregory flipped a Florida state House district that includes Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach estate President Donald Trump claims as his residence, delivering a…