A scene from Pawel Lozinski’s Balcony Movie, a perfect film about the importance of weak ties. | HBO Max The pandemic took away my weak
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Michael Lewis on why Americans don’t trust experts
Getty Images/iStockphoto How a society that is so good at creating knowledge can be so bad at applying it. Why don’t Americans trust the experts?
Deadly attacks on Afghan minorities show the Taliban isn’t keeping its promises
An attack at a boys’ school in a Shiite Hazara neighborhood killed at least 6 people in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 19 — just one
Ron DeSantis’s attack on Disney obviously violates the First Amendment
Disney’s Pluto and Goofy. | Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images This isn’t a close case. At the urging of Republican Gov. Ron
The new phase of the war in Ukraine, explained
Ukrainian soldiers stand next to their armored personnel carrier in Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv, near the front line with Russian troops on April 18. |
What does it mean to take America’s “jobs of last resort”?
A sheriff’s deputy and on-site nurse give medications to an inmate at Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility in Santee, California, in April 2020. Such jobs,
7 ocean mysteries scientists haven’t solved yet
“People have this passionate enthusiasm for outer space, which is totally understandable. But the ocean is equally if not more exciting.” | Zhihong Zhuo/Getty Images
The difference you make when you eat less meat
Pam Ahern, the founder and director of Edgar’s Mission, a nonprofit sanctuary for farmed animals in Australia. | Courtesy of Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals Media How
Gen Z does not dream of labor
Bea Hayward for Vox On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL? Part
How to think about masking on planes, trains, and buses right now
Denis Novikov/Getty Images Even if there’s no official mandate, there are things you can do to make traveling and commuting a little safer. Since the