The November/December issue is here
November/December 2024
Posted inNovember/December 2024
AI Needs Us More Than We Need It
Without a constant stream of high-quality, human-made information, artificial intelligence models become useless. That’s why journalists and other content creators have more leverage over the future than they might know.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
Train DrainÂ
How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial renewal.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The App Always Wins
Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same technologies could be used to protect the addicted, if government would only demand it.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The Student Recruitment Industrial Complex
We tend to think about equity in higher education in terms of how colleges treat students who apply. But long before that, a little-known industry called enrollment management decides who gets the glossy brochures and who gets ignored.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
An Unliterary Childhood
Why growing up in a home without books made me a lifelong fan of book reviews.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
He-e-e-e-re’s Johnny!
He dominated late-night television for 30 years, before our shoutfest era. A new biography of the reclusive Nebraskan is also an elegy for a lost America.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
A Millennium of ConflictÂ
Russia’s identity, not its security or the fear of NATO, has historically been the main driver of Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine. But is the war really a genocide?
Posted inNovember/December 2024
Why They Reign Supreme
A fresh and readable one-volume history of the Court explains how we got from Marbury to Dobbs.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The Regressive EraÂ
A new biography of Woodrow Wilson puts the 28th president’s racism and sexism at the center of its narrative—and his world-historic domestic and international achievements on the periphery.
