America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart
The housing market keeps getting worse. Home prices have risen more than 50 percent since the pandemic. About a third...
Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re an American pilot flying an F-16 over Iraq. The troops on the ground have...
Hedge Fund Titan Has a Turnaround Plan (for the Carolina Panthers)
Humility is not a typical posture for a hedge fund titan, but David Tepper, the founder of the $20 billion...
Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.
About two dozen people met in a white stone parliament building in eastern Belgium on a recent Saturday. They held...
In ‘The Preventionist,’ the Right Way to Protect Children Isn’t So Clear
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together....
French Fashion’s Most Influential Muse Is Having a Closet Sale
In 1976, at the age of 16, Farida Khelfa ran away from her traditional Muslim home in suburban Lyon, hitchhiked...
Clean Comedy Is Back, This Time Without the Judgment
The comic Dusty Slay looks and sounds like a guy who curses. Then there’s his name, which would fit into...
Robert Irwin Is Actually That Nice
Inside the Huntington Botanical Gardens, a leafy oasis amid the concrete sprawl of Los Angeles County, a hawk snatched a...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people...
Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’
TROUBLEMAKER: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, by Carla Kaplan Among many other remarkable qualities, Jessica Mitford was a...
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
When Alexis Wilkins, an aspiring country singer dating the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the National...
Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.
Dan Kluver saw the police lights flashing in his rearview mirror late last year and eased his car onto the...
Their Kids Had Questions About Wealth Inequality. How Did They Respond?
This summer, Catherine Collins took her 11-year-old twins, Aria and Edison, to visit the Field Museum in Chicago. As they...
Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism, pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry...
Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match
Cue the drumbeat, the one people think they know. Boom. It lands right before Whitney Houston delivers the final chorus...
