Apparently, an increasing number of men are cooking meals at home. That's right. Men. In kitchens. Preparing food. Using ...

I suspect we may eventually look back at Google's latest quantum computing breakthrough in a similar way. On October 15, 2026 ...

Hadden traveled through Germany and Austria independently during part of a longer European trip and came away with lessons that previous solo adventures had not already supplied. I appreciate that ...

There are weeks when local news feels carefully scripted. City council meets. Somebody approves a zoning request. A school board discusses a budget. A restaurant opens. Somebody complains about ...

I used to think the most complicated part of shopping was figuring out whether I actually needed something. Apparently, that was an embarrassingly primitive concern. Now I am supposed to consider ...

I read the phrase “Claude-shaped science” and immediately pictured a laboratory being remodeled around a chatbot’s preferences. The benches would be rearranged, the microscopes would receive ...

I thought we were building better software. Apparently, somewhere between autocomplete and artificial general intelligence, Silicon Valley decided it needed to reinvent theology. That is roughly where ...

I woke up today not knowing the precise condition of Will Arnett’s romantic life, and somehow I managed to make coffee, check my phone, and function as a contributing member of society. Then the ...

For a long time, the geography of LGBTQ America seemed almost preprinted. You could practically buy the map at the airport gift shop. San Francisco. New York. Los Angeles. Palm Springs. Provincetown.

I have always assumed that when I send money to the federal government, it disappears into the vast digestive system of American bureaucracy, where it is eventually transformed into aircraft carriers, ...

I used to think of fall as the season when the garden started shutting down. Tomatoes slowed down. Summer flowers faded. The sun disappeared earlier every evening, and gardening gradually turned into ...

I have a particularly soft spot for any company that looks at a complicated hobby and asks whether people might enjoy it more without an entrance exam. Photography could certainly use that ...