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How a fringe idea about race took over the Supreme Court
Last June, in a case that effectively guaranteed one of Alabama’s Black Democratic members of Congress would be replaced by a white Republican, the Supreme Court used a single word that delighted movement conservatives and made many longtime civil rights advocates want to weep. In the first sentence of its decision in Allen v. Milligan…
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MAGA provocateur snatches Lindsey Graham’s torch after his shock death
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) long served as Ukraine’s most reliable ally inside Donald Trump’s circle, working to keep American support for Kyiv alive even as skepticism grew within the president’s base. But his sudden death from an aortic dissection on July 11 — one day after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine — left that role…
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NYC lifeguard ‘Boss of the Beach’ scores $570K pension on taxpayers’ tab: report
Life’s a beach — when taxpayers pick up the tab. A controversial former Big Apple chief city lifeguard nicknamed “Boss of the Beach” raked in a staggering $570,419 pension last year, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Ex chief lifeguard and union boss Peter Stein’s taxpayer-fundedgolden parachute comes after a longtime dual career…
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How AI Could Make People More Anxious
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube| Pocket Casts Nothing sucks you in quite like the internet. It seems to have a way of figuring out what you’re currently obsessed with and serving you more and more of it, whether that’s cat videos, cookie recipes, or information about your most pervasive and seemingly unshakeable…
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AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
Kristen Charpentier’s first hint that she was talking to a robot when she pulled into a Dairy Queen drive-thru lane was that the voice coming out to the speaker was, simply put, “too nice.” “There was no communication delay or weirdness to it. It felt completely natural,” Charpentier tells WIRED. “But just a little too…
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Conservative WSJ board mocks Trump’s latest Iran ‘DEAL’: ‘Will the 9th time be the charm?’
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board railed Sunday that President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy has become impossible to follow. In an Aug. 2 opinion piece, the board dissected Trump’s latest reversal with his Saturday night announcement that he was calling off a planned attack on Iran after claiming Tehran and other Middle Eastern nations…
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The Delicate Art of Making a 1907 House Smarter
At the very end of 2025, my wife and I bought our first home, a 1907 Craftsman in the heart of Portland, Oregon. It’s a beautiful old house, listed on the National Historic Registry, and is largely unchanged from the day it was built. This is exactly what we dreamed of in a house. It’s…
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Clinical Trials Aren’t the Only Way to Know if Flu Shots Work
—Hector Roqueta Rivero—Getty Images Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped recommending that all children get an annual influenza vaccine. Instead, it made the shot a matter of “shared clinical decision-making”—something for parents and a doctor to weigh case by case—citing, among other reasons, a lack of randomized controlled…
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation check-in. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office. There, one deportation officer after another…
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Can knowing less make you happier?
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal Samuel while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in…