Joshua Rothman

Measles is back in the United States. More than 1,500 cases have already been reported in the first months of 2026, putting the country on pace to

Measles is back in the United States. More than 1,500 cases have already been reported in the first months of 2026, putting the country on pace to surpass last year's total of more than 2,200, the highest number in decades. Public health officials warn the nation's status as “measles free” is now at risk as childhood vaccination rates decline.

If you had lived in the early decades of the sixteenth century, how would you have thought about the future?

If you had lived in the early decades of the sixteenth century, how would you have thought about the future? Presumably, you would have considered it in everyday terms: you would have wondered whether it would rain tomorrow, speculated about what might happen in your town over the summer, and hoped to get married someday.

My son's Little League season started not long ago. A few games in, a sign appeared, mounted to a chain-link fence at the ballpark.

A reporter spent a year using more than 100 A.I.-powered products, from a toothbrush to a car, and found that it isn’t a one-size-fits-all technology.

In “Gerontocracy in America,” the historian Samuel Moyn argues that the central conflict of our era is between the young and the elderly.

Today’s dads are spending more time with their children, leading to changes in their brains and hormones. Does this make them better fathers?

Imagine this scenario. After a long drive to the airport, you've just taken off on a fifteen-hour flight.

In 2007, Miranda Fricker, a British philosopher, published a book called “ Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing .” It became a smash