Recent “sensitivity” edits to the author’s beloved yet unabashedly disagreeable novels are all about maintaining a lucrative intellectual property. But what difference can a few changed words really make?

Electric bicycles are catching on—and their lithium-ion batteries are catching fire. Why is so little being done about it?

It’s hard to imagine life without social networking apps. But maybe Elon Musk is helping us figure out how.

Critics of former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin claimed that unseating him would make the city safer. Did it work?

Politicians warn that we’re headed back to the 1970s. Is the fearmongering just an excuse for punishing interest-rate hikes and a revival of the same pro-business, anti-worker policies that failed us before?

Urban legends about poisoned candy have changed to match the times.

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

As national issues increasingly dominate local politics, the downsides of our federalist system may be outweighing the virtues.

The Federal Reserve has only one tool to stem inflation. Congress has many. Why are politicians so reluctant to use them?

Why are Democrats playing cat and mouse with student debtors?

Rents in New York City and around the country are at record levels. Is this forever?

The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district.

The United States banned the incredibly toxic pesticide DDT in the early 1970s. But it never went away.

Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.

The openly biased, often silly news outlet RT America recently shut down. What have we lost?

More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?

Since 2007, Romania has lost between half and two-thirds of its virgin forest. The environmentalists and activists trying to protect it keep getting killed.

Britain elects clown as prime minister. Clown attends parties. Circus turns on clown. What does clown do next?

The president ran on ending the pandemic. What happened?

Meet the young intellectuals who think the culture war is not being fought hard enough.