This Pesticide May Be Too Dangerous to Use. Farmers Say They Need It.
California’s pesticide regulator announced on Monday the state would phase out the herbicide paraquat, which studies increasingly associate with Parkinson’s...
Eurovision Bars Warring Countries From Hosting
Winner Dara from Bulgaria with the song “Bangaranga” performs again after her victory in the final of the 70th Eurovision...
‘Dead Souls’ Review: A Mean Satire About American Exploitation
When an enigmatic man in a bowler hat arrives in a rough-and-tumble frontier town in Arizona, circa 1890, the locals...
Back-to-school season is hectic. To stay sane, we do the bare minimum for 1 month.
The author (not pictured) said she makes sure her family doesn't schedule anything beyond the essentials during the first month...
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.
Starting last fall, the Department of Homeland Security spent $464 million on a no-bid contract to buy 10 used airplanes...
Flirting Is a Lost Art
—CSA-Printstock—Getty Images Last year, at a party, I bumped into a handsome guy who I had met the month before...
In Wyoming, a Primary Fight Between the Right and the Far Right
In Wyoming, a Primary Fight Between the Right and the Far Right One of the most conservative states has a...
Four writers discuss: Is college worth it? ‘It better be.’
This month, students across the United States are starting to head back to campus. Shopping — for classes, for course...
The Jonestown Style of Politics
In January 1977, not two years before Reverend Jim Jones would orchestrate his followers’ deaths by the hundreds, a San...
So You Want to Build an A.I. Star?
In a bright, modernist conference room in Midtown Manhattan this spring, a small group of employees at an artificial intelligence...
