Commencement Speeches Are Supposed to Be Boring
Congratulations. After four years of hard work, you—or your son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter, or neighbor or niece,...
Congratulations. After four years of hard work, you—or your son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter, or neighbor or niece,...
For the past year, the Smithsonian Institution has found itself in the awkward position of telling the nation’s story while...
Walking through Bloomingdale’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Brittany Aldean passed the counters for Lancôme, which made her...
Spencer Pratt, the former reality-TV star and aspiring mayor of Los Angeles, recently spoke with me for a podcast. We...
Early one morning behind the airport in La Lima, Honduras, before the first planeload of deportees landed, Sister Idalina Bordignon...
On the day Dinah lost her hat, I was sitting on the top step of my just-right Scamp trailer doing...
On Saturday, Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, used a speech at Kansas City International Airport to deliver...
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You hear wild stuff all the time now. Like this story that Nat Friedman, a former CEO of GitHub, told...
Donald Trump, probably by mistake, said something honest the other day. Appearing on the White House lawn Tuesday afternoon, Trump...
Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, May 14, 2026, Jonathan Haidt—a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a social psychologist at New...
Hollywood, no stranger to existential crises, is finding itself torn on the rise of generative AI. Supporters of the technology...
Clay Parikh, a cybersecurity expert from Alabama, spent years as a bit player in the world of election denial. He...
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Fifteen years after Mitt Romney stood on an Iowa hay bale and proclaimed that “corporations are people, my friend,” his...