It’s not necessarily the guys you might expect, Apollo Knapp told me. These are 6-foot-tall high-school athletes, guys who are social and popular. “They’re the type of people that are friends with everybody, who get dapped up in the hallway every two feet,” said Knapp, an 18-year-old high school senior in Ohio and a board […]

“Across party lines and demographic groups, young men are eager to be dads.” That’s the surprising conclusion that Anna North, my Vox colleague, uncovered when she dove into the data to find out young people’s views about forming families. Birth rates have been in free fall, and talk of a demographic crisis has increasingly filled […]

The dairy industry uses cows to make two things: milk and baby cows. The milk, we know its fate. But what of those 9 million babies born to dairy cows each year?  Many get carted off — sometimes over great distances, typically at not more than a few days old — to live out their […]

AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death — machines are teaching themselves how to do your job. Over the past four years, chatbots have gone from neat […]

This is not how it was supposed to go for Iran.  For years, the Islamic Republic worked to build up a network of allies throughout the Middle East, widely known as the “axis of resistance,” which, in the event Iran itself were attacked, could rain down destruction on Israel, the US military, and American allies […]