Editor’s Pick

The underlying argument has not changed: Vaccines harm America’s children, and doctors like Paul Offit are paid shills of the drug industry. To be clear, there is no credible evidence to indicate that any of this is true. None. Twelve epidemiological studies have found no data that links the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine to autism; six […]

Novelist Tim O’Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown

What’s wrong—and what’s gloriously right—with AMC’s hit show

The oldest field player in the NFL is Brett Favre. The second-oldest is Jeff Zgonina. He’ll never make it to Canton, but he and players like him are the soul of football.

How the reinvention of higher education benefits parents, students, and schools.

A stalemate between the United States and the Taliban seemed to unfold before me. The drones killed many senior commanders and hindered their operations. Yet the Taliban were able to garner recruits in their aftermath by exaggerating the number of civilian casualties. (Part 4 of 5)

The Return of James Cameron.

With shrewdness and luck, an imperious idea of democracy, and plenty of money, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made himself the only political player in New York who really matters.

We’re in Pakistan, I thought to myself. We’re dead. Eight days earlier, a Taliban faction had kidnapped me along with an Afghan journalist, Tahir Luddin, and our driver, Asad Mangal, during a reporting trip just outside Kabul.