The Best of The Washington Post

Over 600 images were submitted to the fourth Global Image of the Year Scientific Light Microscopy Award, an annual competition run by Tokyo-based Evident.

Furniture used to last generations. Now it barely survives a move. Industry insiders explain.

Climate-fueled disease — tied to heat, pathogens and toxins — is an emerging, lethal threat that countries are ill-prepared to confront. The Post visited ground zero for this new era, Pakistan, to see what the future holds.

No matter how immortal we feel, we are all — still — at risk of developing crushing, life-altering symptoms.

“I’m Just Ken” has become a Billboard 100 single and is a serious contender for meme of the summer.

For decades Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google gobbled up their competition to become behemoths of the tech industry, which has drawn attention from Congressional leaders and other critics who claim they’ve stifled innovation in the industry.

«the majority of acquisitions involved small start-ups with valuable patents or talented engineers, many of which led to products used today, like Google Docs and iTunes.»

Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.

Its monopoly is costing public libraries e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Trevor Noah and a whole lot more.

“They’re more like friends than objects,” one passionate bookseller says. What are we to do with our flooded shelves?

It will take a major transformation for news organizations to give reporting on climate change the coverage it deserves — and needs.

Shared by 219, including Joshua Benton, Bill McKibben, Dr. Genevieve Guenther, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Joi Ito

The ‘patron saint of the internet’ tells The Post he’ll never pay for verification but will learn to code if Musk offers him a job.

As Elon Musk's Twitter stumbled, Mark Zuckerberg pushed for a new app to rival it. The result, Threads, has reinvigorated the struggling social media giant.

In some cases, residents of South Texas have been entered into deportation proceedings.

That includes the attacker who killed German politician Walter Lübcke for his pro-refugee policies, the Christchurch mosque shooter, and more.

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn’t enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and false news, including conspiracy theories shared by prominent users like Alex Jones and Infowars.

President Trump met privately on Tuesday with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The meeting comes as the president continues to accuse tech giants of exhibiting bias against conservative users.

A 17-year-old's death in California shows how fentanyl and fake pills, often sold on social media, are killing record numbers of unsuspecting Americans.

Increasingly, I find it less ethically correct to traffic in images of Black death for the sake of “awareness.”

As greenhouse gas emissions nudge temperatures higher, projections show trees’ growing ranges are shifting northward.

The staggering new estimate from scientists brings into relief ants’ astonishing ubiquity at a time of growing concern about insects dying off.

The number of new coronavirus cases is starting to decline as the country pursues a policy of elimination rather than containment.

Move over, James Buchanan.

Trump’s charges of fraud in 2020 are not about looking back, as many Republicans insist. They are about establishing the predicate to challenge future election results more effectively.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have lost tens of thousands of followers, while Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have seen big increases.

Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?

The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

In a recording obtained by The Washington Post, President Trump alternately berated, begged and threatened Brad Raffensperger to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state.

Your gut microbiome influences your mental health, heart risk, weight gain and even sleep, which is why you need to feed it a wider variety of quality food.

Every year, billions of dollars are pumped into a wellness industry defined by the theory that we can be perfected.