The Weekend Essay Across the country, the booming industry of pet hospice is teaching people how to face the loss of their beloved companions. June 6, 2026 Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook When Jessamyn Kennedy began veterinary school, about twenty years ago, hardly anyone put their pets in day care…

If you’d told the Serge Pizzorno of 10 years ago that he’d one day be appearing on the front cover of Runner’s World, he would have laughed out loud. ‘I used to despise anyone that was keeping fit,’ he says. ‘If any of the bands on tour were in the gym, I’d be sat in the bar saying “Come and have a…

I’ve always thought of myself as a good person: a good citizen and a good member of my community – at least in the ethical sense of the word. I presumed being good required refraining from harming the world and the people within it. An example of this being that I never litter. However, when I moved…

Till Debt Do Us Part A series about the ever-escalating costs of getting hitched. Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty It had started with four words — “Will you marry me?” — which led Alaina to make a proposal of her own. About three months after her fiancé got down on one knee, a “complete…

A Reporter at Large How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. June 8, 2026 “I’ve done this with over 100 girls,” Tate said, about compelling women into sex work. “I almost sound evil. But I’m not.”Photo illustration by…

I’ve tried to keep an open mind on LLMs as writing tools. Considering what I do for a living, it’d be stupid not to at least acknowledge that my initial reflexive response of this is crap might come hand in hand with some insecurity about my professional prospects. So I’ve played around with the…

Fault Lines I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no. June 2, 2026 Illustration by George Wylesol You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I…

It would be really nice if we had some way to analyse which jobs, companies and industries were exposed to AI, and if we could assign scores, and build charts, and map that against the progress of large language models. We know, in principle, that like every other big wave of technology, AI is bound…

Illustration: Zohar Lazar This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. A former CEO with a high eight-figure net worth spent a recent morning searching online for cheap flights. He drives a sensible car. He wears $140 shoes, and he winces whenever he flips over…

Two weeks ago, I quit my job. It wasn’t a bad job, not by most metrics. It ticked the boxes a job is supposed to tick: good pay. Health insurance. Remote work. Time off. Nice coworkers. I worked as our org’s only design engineer and maintainer of our design system. My job was to build components, to…

Letter from New Orleans High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. April 13, 2026 A stretch of highway in New Orleans mysteriously became an asphalt Bermuda Triangle—a treacherous gantlet…

It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help the world’s poorest people that he committed £10 a month to the charity. Within a few years he had…

Harry Styles is asking for advice. He’d been nervous about today, almost couldn’t believe it was happening. But excited, too, to sit down with one of his heroes, a man who had made him feel it was okay to be vulnerable. Someone who inspired him to take up running. Marathons, specifically. “I wonder…

The small crack in a running influencer’s foot was declared by my FYP page with the importance of a new political bill: Mary McCarthy has a stress fracture. What does this mean for you? My algorithm was suddenly overwhelmed by content reacting to this injury. Critics declared that an outcome like…

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

In 2022, everything changed for Tom Misch. The London-based singer-songwriter had been at the height of his powers: his easygoing blend of hip-hop-influenced beat-making with soulful guitar melodies and yearning vocals led his self-released and self-produced 2018 debut album Geography to chart at No…

Margaret Qualley walks into Clark’s, a diner in Brooklyn Heights, carrying her little dog, Smokey, in her arms and is immediately intercepted by an employee who tells her she can’t have a dog inside. “I’ll be back in 10 minutes” is the first thing she says. She lives nearby with her husband, the…

The realities of being a pop star

Greg Squire can never forget the video that opened his eyes to what child sexual abuse could mean. It was a Sunday and he was at his home in New Hampshire, sitting out on his deck, his two young children running around, playing. This was 2008, about a year into Squire’s career as an agent for…

Brooding Deep thoughts on modern family life from Kathryn Jezer-Morton. Illustration: Hannah Buckman New York subscribers got exclusive early access to this story in our Brooding newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about how the idea of…

A Look Back at Atom and His Package, the One-Man Band That Made Punk Uncool Again

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With white-wired headphones endorsed by celebrities including Lily-Rose Depp, Paul Mescal, Bella Hadid and Apple Martin, a growing number of people are breaking away from wireless listening. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate…

Yangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager. When the pair, who are researchers at Nottingham Trent University, set out to study how environmental conditions in churches had changed over time, Knight…

The two men chop peppers, slice aubergines and giggle into the camera as they delve into the art of vegan cooking. Both are wearing ski masks and T-shirts bearing Nazi symbols. The German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for…

There is a particular kind of literary deja vu that strikes sometimes. Seemingly out of nowhere, the same book starts appearing across multiple social media feeds. On the bus, you’ll spot two copies of the same title in one day. A friend says, “Have you read this yet?”, to which you respond,…

Not long ago, after a day of work, a colleague and I met for a friendly game of racquetball at our university gym. In the newly designed locker room, I began pulling off my shirt to change when he quickly stopped me: “You can’t do that here.” Undressing, it turned out, was now permitted only in…

If life had worked out differently, Serena would by now be coming to terms with an empty nest. Having brought up seven children, she and her husband might even have been enjoying a little more money and time for themselves. But as it is, three of their adult children are now at home: the 23-year-old…

In his four decades as a curator, publisher and gallerist, Matthew Higgs has supported many artists’ careers, including those of his contemporaries Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed and Peter Doig when they emerged in the early 1990s. Higgs also champions artists from alternative backgrounds – those who…

“I don’t want Big Tech to sell my data.” “I don’t want employers to stalk me.” Not wanting to be watched is a valid reason to be anti-social media. We often compare social media to Orwell’s surveillance state of 1984, but here’s what’s different about our telescreens: our screens do not exist to…

The great resignation has freed some of us back into shackles. Our culture likes escapism: First, we quit our jobs to escape from offices. Then, we make our own jobs to escape from freedom. We leave one cage only to find ourselves in another, some completely made by our own hands. Under the…

One morning in January, I woke up and it was like a spell had been broken the way I looked around my room and saw how dull everything was, not because it was lacking but because of how full it was of stuff. Stuff I didn’t particularly love. Stuff with no serious meaning to it. Stuff I didn’t care…

Goon, the 2015 debut album by Canada-born LA musician Tobias Jesso Jr, was one of the revelations of the 2010s. An album of heartfelt, earnest ballads in the vein of 70s singer-songwriters such as Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, it instantly established Jesso as a rising indie star and was one of…

Quitting your job in your 30s with no solid plan is generally considered poor decision-making. Doing it because you watched The Big Lebowski is probably even worse. But as I faced up to what would be my eighth year in an IT role, I watched Jeff Bridges meandering his way through the chaos of life in…

He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian university founded by the conservative pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell, and recalls wearing a T-shirt expressing opposition to Democratic presidential candidate John…

Kyle Chayka’s recent column on the new prestige of having barely any followers

As dawn spread over San Antonio on September 9, 2021, almond-colored smoke began to fill the sky above the city’s Far West Side. The plumes were whorling off the top of a 132-foot-tall cell tower that overshadows an office park just north of SeaWorld. At a hotel a mile away, a paramedic snapped a…

Annals of Fashion The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? September 15, 2025 Uniqlo, founded in Japan in 1984, is the universal donor of fashion, intended to go with any…