The Best of The New Republic

The phrase “climate dread” better legitimizes the real and tangible threat coming toward us.

In the quaint, well-to-do worlds of her novels, anyone could be guilty. Murderers kill to beat the social order at its own game.

Jenny Odell wants us to forget hours, minutes, and seconds and live with a different sense of time.

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing what you love.”

«No one says to a horse, “If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.”»

Some post-Covid symptoms may be produced by the brain. Does that make them any less real?

«Functional disorder is not voluntary. People are not doing it to themselves. That’s just the way the brain is reacting to their particular situation»

Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.

Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?

Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics.

As lawmakers in Washington ponder banning the app, they could be courting a substantial backlash from a key voting bloc—and one party could suffer the brunt of it.

A lawsuit filed against “influencer” Grant Cardone offers an inside look at a get-rich-quick scheme that could help enable the next housing market crash.

The inventors of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator saw it as a path to self-discovery—and a tool of workplace management.

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Efforts to diversify the industry might be having the opposite effect. And although puzzles are an important part of The New York Times’ business strategy, only a handful of people actually make a…

How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.

China's social credit system, which becomes mandatory in 2020, aims to funnel all behavior into a credit score.

It makes you hate your co-workers, and it makes your boss want to fire you.

Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?