Cruise Ships Aren’t Ready for Instant Tsunamis
Landslides can cause sudden, powerful tsunamis—and no one really knows how to navigate them.
Landslides can cause sudden, powerful tsunamis—and no one really knows how to navigate them.
A centuries-long tradition of authoritarian rule and disregard for individual rights underpins Vladimir Putin’s imperial project.
Culture and entertainment musts from Rina Li
Viral videos and their outraging, perception-changing, galvanizing effects may have propelled both outraged skepticism of tough-on-crime tactics and the backlash to it.
Like his presidential predecessors, Joe Biden continues to confront a dilemma in the Middle East.
Preparing for death can be a way to take inventory of a life well lived.
A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an immediate, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters.
Can a robot map a planet as well as a human can?
An electric car capable of running for 1 million miles is within reach.
Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut film, The Watchers, finds a careful balance between the freaky and the mundane.
The small, hollow object has had a complicated life.
India’s election is an eye-opening lesson for the U.S. and other countries.
Adam Higginbotham’s new book on the tragedy manages to add depth to a well-known story.
A chronicler of addictions struggles to control himself.
The web itself is being shoved into a great unknown.
No matter the obstacles that Donald Trump creates for himself, Joe Biden’s candidacy remains an existentially risky, perhaps disastrous, proposition.
We take the workings of wide, complicated technological systems on faith. But they depend on people—and, sometimes, people fail.
The world has been through multiple flu pandemics. That doesn’t mean it’s any more prepared.
Those who can see the good in the former president should look harder at everyone else.