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Inside the Online Anti-Indian Hate Factory
A study traces the explosion of anti-Indian rhetoric on social media, including 24,000 posts that were viewed over 300 million times.
Tanner Nau
The Ancient Male Art of Monitoring the Situation
Beneath the joke of ‘monitoring the situation’ memes lies a deep and unchangeable male instinct: the instinct for heroic action.
Nicholas Clairmont
The Weekend Press: The Girls Who Hate Men
Plus: Two drinks with a former governor who resigned over a meeting with Epstein. A plot to kill a man on the Appalachian Trail. Suzy Weiss on our…
The Free Press
The Generation Raised to Doubt Love
Long before our first crushes, women my age were taught that love doesn’t last and commitment is a trap.
Freya India
The Children Are Our Future and They Want to Be Chinese
Plus, why ‘The Traitors’ is the best show on TV, the gay tech mafia, Dunkin’ buckets, and more!
River Page
How Instagram Broke Its Promise to Protect Teens
Newly unsealed court documents show Meta executives scrambling to save face: ‘We’re exposed with nowhere to hide.’
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Screens Are Stressing You Out of Your Mind
Every era has its social contagions. In the 18th century, it was romantic despair. In 2026, it’s the compulsive scroll—and it’s rewiring our stress…
Arthur Brooks
How Tehran Whitewashes Its Crimes Abroad
As Iran’s security forces crushed protests, a parallel operation unfolded online, blaming a domestic uprising on a global conspiracy.
Jay Solomon and Negar Mojtahedi
Mark Zuckerberg’s Courtroom Reckoning
In a Los Angeles courtroom, he tried to combat claims that Meta wants to keep teens chained to its apps.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Can You Really Be ‘Addicted’ to Social Media?
The science of addiction is not as simple as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok’s legal opponents want you to think.
Sally Satel
Jonathan Haidt: Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids
What looked politically impossible just months ago has become a global movement to restrict kids’ access to social media. Here’s how it happened.
Jonathan Haidt
How a Kidfluencer Became an OnlyFans Star
Piper Rockelle says she wasn’t abused or exploited—and now that she’s 18, you have to believe her.
River Page
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