Why do women stay with their abusers? Here’s one overlooked reason.

Relationship abuse is about coercion and control. One of the biggest levers of that power is money.

By Emily NixApril 24, 2023

The wizards of AI can’t give it a brain, or heart, or consciousness

This software — like all other software — is unconscious. Building conscious software wasn’t the goal of this project.

By David GelernterApril 24, 2023

What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today

Russian security services play by devious rules in framing U.S. journalists

By Philip TaubmanApril 24, 2023

What a 2001 investigation into an FBI spy can tell us about the Discord leaker

The case of Robert Hanssen revealed serious flaws in the federal government's internal security.

By Glenn FineApril 24, 2023

The bomb saved countless lives in WWII. But we must never use it again.

Today's bombs are a hundred times more destructive.

By Evan ThomasApril 24, 2023

Readers react to an op-ed lamenting the loss of a literary magazine

Christian Lorentzen wrote about the demise of his beloved Bookforum, which he described as “a scrappy quarterly with an outsize impact in the world of letters.”

By Washington Post StaffApril 23, 2023

For movie lovers, there’s a darker side to Netflix ending DVD rentals

Sure, the red envelope business was old-fashioned. But what about all the films unavailable to stream?

By Ty BurrApril 21, 2023

Readers react to an op-ed on period weirdness after covid vaccines

A biological anthropologist noted complaints about weird periods after receiving a coronavirus vaccine. Here is how readers responded to her essay.

By Washington Post StaffApril 21, 2023

How to defend against the rise of ChatGPT? Think like a poet.

In the AI age, language — not science, engineering or mathematics — could be the hill humanity dies on.

By Jaswinder BolinaApril 20, 2023

Biden’s new electric car rule puts the country on the wrong road

How the new EPA rule on electric vehicles could backfire on the president.

By Robert E. GradyApril 20, 2023

AI could cause a mass-extinction of languages — and ways of thinking

Large language models imperil ways of seeing, knowing and creating.

By Viorica MarianApril 19, 2023

Don’t want a baby because of climate fears? You’re not alone.

Some older Americans call young people’s anxieties absurd. But the choice not to have children in the face of crisis goes back centuries.

By Peggy O’Donnell HeffingtonApril 19, 2023

Why reports of period weirdness after covid shots were ignored

Menstrual changes matter to millions of people. Yet medical professionals keep failing to ask the right questions.

By Kate ClancyApril 18, 2023

What the death of a literary magazine says about our cultural decay

In an era of cultural disintegration, we need more than ever the intelligence, verve and criticality of a well-edited little magazine.

By Christian LorentzenApril 18, 2023

There’s another pandemic raging. It’s targeting the young and online.

The country's leadership overreacted to the coronavirus, but are committing the opposite mistake with social media, better termed antisocial media.

By Mitch DanielsApril 17, 2023

The U.S. needs to relearn how to tell its story to the world

When it comes to getting strategic messaging, Russia and China are running laps around us. Here's how we can change that.

By Robert M. GatesApril 16, 2023

Last year’s sunflowers save this year’s garden

In high northern Colorado, where the snow still falls, a gardener patiently anticipates spring flowers.

By Camille T. DungyApril 14, 2023

This plan for a third-party presidential bid in 2024 is dangerous

A No Labels ticket would be a stalking horse for an extreme MAGA Republican candidate.

By Jonathan Cowan, Rahna Epting and Patrick GaspardApril 14, 2023

Beyond noncompetes, firms use these tactics to stop workers from leaving

A proposed ban on noncompetes is a worthwhile effort. Unfortunately, the FTC's proposal falls short.

By Sandeep Vaheesan April 13, 2023

Backyard bees disfigure yards in ways we are only beginning to comprehend

Are urban beekeepers making it harder for native bees to thrive?

By Tove DanovichApril 13, 2023