Matthew Yglesias's Blog, page 138

Help! My Mother-in-Law’s Scheme to “Fix” Our Family Is Going to Destroy Our Wedding.

She won't let it go.

The Real Threat From A.I. Isn’t Superintelligence. It’s Gullibility.

Our gullibility, that is.

He Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened?

He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Then he disappeared.

The Iowa Football Team Is the Best Case Against Nepotism That Humankind Has Ever Seen

Everyone thinks Brian Ferentz needs to go, except his dad and the athletic director.

A Supreme Court Case Could Decide the Fate of the Modern Internet

“This is a really difficult case with tragic circumstances,” says Jeff Kosseff, author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.

My Wife Is Completely Obsessed With One Aspect of Our Daughter’s Appearance

Parenting advice on glasses, appearance, and how to co-parent with an ex.

Why Jon Stewart’s On-Camera Humiliation of an Anti-Trans Official Is So Important

The right has it in for transgender people. We could use #resistance liberals’ help.

The Great New Book That Explodes the Memoir-Novel Divide

Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book playfully frees itself from the fiction/nonfiction binary from the very first page.

House of the Dragon Finally Has Its Joffrey

He’s a true rising star of awfulness.

This Week’s Worst Person in Westeros: Aegon Targaryen

He’s a true rising star of awfulness.