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Oscar Schwartz on the debate over social media’s effects on youth mental health and Australia’s passion for regulation ...

The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s early years as a journalist were particularly notable for his coverage of the country’s civil war—the so-called black decade that began in the early Nineties. He ...

The Knight First Amendment Institute and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at Columbia University hosted a symposium on September 9 and 10 called “The Forever War and the First ...

Ten long years ago, an act of Congress established the United States Semiquincentennial Commission, a bipartisan group in charge of overseeing the nation’s two-hundred-fiftieth-birthday celebrations.

In 1887, L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician writing under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, meaning “one who hopes,” published a slim volume laying out the complete grammar rules of a new universal ...

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the writer Kristin Dombek was one of many people who ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

In September 2023, in the middle of the night, England’s most beloved tree was mysteriously felled in a bizarre act of vandalism. The public outcry was swift and furious—this was, after all, by some ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...

Discussed in this essay: The Deserters, by Mathias Énard. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions. 192 pages. $16.95. If The Deserters poses this question in a dramatic way, the relationship ...