Matthew Yglesias's Blog, page 165

How Babies Mess With Everybody’s Brains

Author Chelsea Conaboy on the neuroscience of caregiving.

This Just Might Be an Autumn of Consequences

America’s long summer of “messing” around is turning into the fall of finding out.

Carlos Alcaraz Looks Like a Legend in the Making

The 19-year-old is the present and future of tennis.

America Needs to Break Up With America’s Team

The Cowboys and the country had a deal. Dallas has broken it.

Help! I Confessed to My Wife the Real Reason Why I Don’t Want a Vasectomy. She Freaked Out.

She thinks I'm plotting a divorce.

My Family Wants to Gift Me Thousands of Dollars. I’m Not Comfortable With What Else They Want Me to Do.

We definitely aren’t billionaires.

Bush Spokesman Ari Fleischer, Now Working for Saudis, Coincidentally Ends Tradition of Remembering 9/11

Fleischer said he had a conflict this year that prevented him from live tweeting. He's not wrong!

An A.I. Beat Human Artists in a Competition. Will It Come for Their Jobs Next?

Tools like Midjourney and DALL-E 2 have crossed the uncanny valley. What happens next?

Do Any Women in Gen Z Really Lust After Leonardo DiCaprio? We Asked a Few to Explain.

“I think he’s just some guy to all of us. Wasn’t he in The Matrix?”

There’s Only One Way to Help Britney Spears Now. We’re Doing the Opposite.

The final act of #FreeBritney has to be to let her go.