Your inbox is your home page, and The New Republic makes it smarter. Sign up now for your free newsletter. By now, we’ve all heard the stories of tragic heat accidents and deaths. The hiker couple, their 1-year-old baby, and their dog—all dead of…

Ms. Cummins is a journalist and an adjunct professor in New York University’s science, health and environmental reporting program. Mr. Zaleski is a journalist who covers science, technology and business. Stephanie Cacioppo thought she would be single…

Your inbox is your home page, and The New Republic makes it smarter. Sign up now to receive our free newsletters. The climate crisis once appeared confined to the great outdoors: rising oceans, bracing wildfires, and surging temperatures. So too were…

Your inbox is your home page, and The New Republic makes it smarter. Sign up now to receive our free newsletters. The limits of self-defense and the nature of vigilantism are both perennial American debate topics, but this spring, they boomed louder…

Your inbox is your home page, and The New Republic makes it smarter. Sign up now to receive our free newsletters. You know the plot: There’s a body. The authorities bungle the case. Those close to the victim are divided about what really happened;…

Beneath my powder-pink blindfold, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. It was a chilly afternoon in January, and I had just arrived at my first sensory deprivation party—ominously titled “Games People Play,” per the sparse Parti.ful invitation. I had a…

Philosophers have grappled with the nature of evil for thousands of years, but these days, immorality can feel like a solved problem. Take the case of Bryan Kohberger, the prime suspect in a quadruple homicide near the University of Idaho whose…

These titles can help us accept our limitations and live full lives. Everyone lives with a shared burden: Inevitably, each of us will die, and so will the people we love. It’s easy enough to ignore when you’re young or healthy, but anxious questions…

A revolution in weight loss is apparently underway. It started in 2021, when the FDA approved the diabetes drug semaglutide for weight loss. The weekly injectable—sold under the brand name Wegovy—can help users lose 5 to 10 percent of their body…

hen Mana Parast examines a placenta, she knows she may never find the answers she seeks. She’s hunting for clues — strips of dead tissue that signal autoimmune disease, white blood cells in the lining of the umbilical cord that point to an infection,…

Rent, health insurance, and HVAC are all foregone conclusions. But there’s one payment I find myself reconsidering each month: the $175 that grants me unlimited access to my neighborhood yoga studio, fairy lights, hardwood floors, centering vibes,…

These titles are challenging where others are pandering, and open-minded where others are prescriptive. Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into…

If you think your dog loves you, you’re a fool. If you feel a kinship with a tree, you’re a hippie. And if you over-empathize with a wild animal, you must be wearing cheetah prints and a flower crown, because you are Carole Baskin. The imperative to…

he headlines spelled the end of a short-lived scientific hope: “Male birth control study nixed after men can’t handle side effects women face daily,” USA Today announced. “Men Back Out of Male Birth Control Study Because They Couldn’t Handle the…

Why should the benefits of dying be limited to the dead (or nearly dead)? That’s the question that Mel Slater hasn’t been able to get out of his head. Slater, a distinguished investigator in clinical psychology at the University of Barcelona, had…

On TikTok, videos about Hashimoto’s disease, a thyroid disorder, are racking up hundreds of millions of views—and turning it into a brand Reading Time: 4 minutes Stella Aubert knows the secret to healing Hashimoto’s. The New Mexico–based chiropractor…

When 14-year-old Molly Russell died in 2017, her cell phone contained graphic images of self-harm, an email roundup of “depression pins you might like,” and advice on concealing mental illness from loved ones. Investigators initially ruled the…

On a sweater-weather Saturday in June, a crowd of several hundred gathered at a trailhead near the Line 1 rapid transit out of Oslo. The scruffy grad students, smiling parents, and snowsuit-wearing toddlers had made the 45-minute trek from the…

THE BRAND-NEW Ford DeLuxe Fordor that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow plucked from a Topeka, Kansas, driveway in 1934 was top-shelf: Cordoba gray paint, a big chrome grill, and a sumptuous leather interior. But what really attracted the car-savvy bank…

Rachel Gerberding has a green thumb. So when her mother died this April, Gerberding decided to compost her. Gerberding, who lives in Washington state in a house surrounded by flowers, had heard about a newly legal method to turn human remains into…