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Instagram

April 8, 2026

Black-and-white photo of the NBA player Jaden Ivey in a Bulls jersey with his eyes cast slightly downward.

Family

Everyone Thinks They Need a NeeDoh

Olga Khazan

April 3, 2026

Animated illustration of disappearing NeeDoh

Technology

It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’

Nancy Walecki

April 1, 2026

An illustration of a slot machine where the icons are coffee, stilettos, and a martini

Ideas

Nick Fuentes’s Strategy Is Working

Amogh Dimri

March 28, 2026

Nine squares of Nick Fuentes making various facial expressions and hand gestures, with some of the squares tinted blue

Technology

A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 25, 2026

Photograph of a child looking at a phone in a dark room with a dim red light

Health

There’s Only One Reason to Cold Plunge

Bill Gifford

March 19, 2026

A man flexes his muscles with ice behind him

Family

The New Infidelity

Zoe Yu

March 19, 2026

Culture

The Clever Insight of the SNL ‘MAHAspital’ Sketch

Michael Tedder

March 15, 2026

A red-headed man in a doctor's outfit looks concerned.

Ideas

The Fake Images of a Real Strike on a School

Mahsa Alimardani

March 13, 2026

An image of graves in Iran, distorted with fog and digital glitches.

Ideas

I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

David Wolpe

March 9, 2026

Color photograph of Gavin Newsom speaking with U.S. and California flags behind him.

Technology

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes

Michael Scherer and Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 27, 2026

Culture

Love Is Blind, as Long as Love Does Pilates

Megan Garber

February 27, 2026

Photo-illustration of Chris Fusco and Jessica Barrett from "Love Is Blind"

Culture

Enough With the Bros

Dan Brooks

February 26, 2026

An illustration of a shirtless man wearing a purple hat and sunglasses holding "Infinite Jest" next to an IPA

Culture

The Alysa Liu Effect

Sally Jenkins

February 21, 2026

Politics

Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

Elaine Godfrey

February 10, 2026

Illustration with a pink background of a hand reaching down and pinching an all-white cartoon speech bubble

Technology

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 9, 2026

A pixelated and distorted image of a child in a dress jumping rope

Ideas

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Keith Humphreys and Jonathan Caulkins

February 2, 2026

Abstract illustration of an iPhone in a kind of animal trap with 'react' buttons from facebook falling out of it

Books

A Survivor Contestant’s Empathetic Reality-TV Novel

Julie Beck

February 2, 2026

Photo illustration of an eye on an old-fashioned TV screen

Technology

The New Shadowbanning Panic

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 28, 2026

A stylized illustration of a cracked smartphone against a dark-blue background. The phone displays what appears to be a TikTok-style video interface with text reading "ICE OUT" visible at the top. The image is heavily obscured by colorful digital-glitch effects—horizontal bars and rectangular blocks in cyan, magenta, purple, and teal—that fragment and distort the screen, suggesting censorship or digital interference. The phone has visible cracks across its screen, and the overall aesthetic conveys themes of social-media suppression or content moderation.

Culture

Half His Age Isn’t At All What It Seems

Sophie Gilbert

January 27, 2026

Red heart-shaped sunglasses affixed with price-tag stickers

Global

The Online World Where Iranians Were Free

Nahid Siamdoust

January 23, 2026

Photograph of a one green and one red handprint on a concrete wall above a bystander with a white-painted hand leaving a third imprint. The photo is surrounded by a thick black border.

Politics

Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth

Ali Breland

January 23, 2026

Books

The Unhappy Literary Families of the Internet Age

Gideon Leek

January 13, 2026

an illustration of a phone turned into a book

Ideas

What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

Xochitl Gonzalez

December 24, 2025

Technology

The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here

Charlie Warzel

December 23, 2025

Illustration of an older woman holding a smartphone close to her face; the phone screen shows a black-and-white hypnotic spiral, suggesting manipulation or addictive pull, against a bright green background.

Culture

The Color of the Year Is an Exercise in Absurdity

Ellen Cushing

December 19, 2025

A paint swatch of Pantone's "cloud dancer" with a dollar price tag attached to it

Family

Why Couples Therapists Are Sick of ‘Therapy-Speak’

Olga Khazan

December 12, 2025

Culture

The Most Impractical Tool in My Kitchen

Tyler Austin Harper

December 10, 2025

Photo illustration of stainless-steel knives next to carbon-steel knives

Viewfinder

November 8, 2025

Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts in Ryan Murphy's "All's Fair"

Global

The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning

Arash Azizi

November 7, 2025

Two young Iranian women walk together along a shore of the Chitgar Lake in the recreational Chitgar complex in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on September 11, 2025.

Technology

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

Damon Beres

December 2025 Issue

illustration with two abstract figures holding hands, one a dark silhouette with a long shadow and the other a blue grid, casting no shadow, on white background

Technology

A Tool That Crushes Creativity

Charlie Warzel

October 20, 2025

Ideas

Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

Elias Wachtel

October 9, 2025

An illustration of a brick with a speaker, antenna, and dial buttons like a phone.

Technology

AI’s Emerging Teen-Health Crisis

Kaitlyn Tiffany and Matteo Wong

September 18, 2025

Sections

The Print Edition

The NBA Isn’t the Same for Everyone

Everyone Thinks They Need a NeeDoh

It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’

Nick Fuentes’s Strategy Is Working

A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

There’s Only One Reason to Cold Plunge

The New Infidelity

The Clever Insight of the SNL ‘MAHAspital’ Sketch

The Fake Images of a Real Strike on a School

I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes

Love Is Blind, as Long as Love Does Pilates

Enough With the Bros

The Alysa Liu Effect

Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

A Survivor Contestant’s Empathetic Reality-TV Novel

The New Shadowbanning Panic

Half His Age Isn’t At All What It Seems

The Online World Where Iranians Were Free

Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth

The Unhappy Literary Families of the Internet Age

What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here

The Color of the Year Is an Exercise in Absurdity

Why Couples Therapists Are Sick of ‘Therapy-Speak’

The Most Impractical Tool in My Kitchen

By the Horns

The Culture War Comes to the Kitchen

All’s Fair Is an Atrocity

The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

A Tool That Crushes Creativity

Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

AI’s Emerging Teen-Health Crisis