The Highlight
A digital magazine unpacking the big ideas changing our present and shaping our future.
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Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
A baby bust threatens the future of an already struggling reef.
Use this article … 95 years after I’m dead.
The Bruen decision upended America’s gun laws. Years later, cops and courts are still trying to sort out the mess.
America is still the most influential country in the world, for better or worse.
Why hasn’t anyone told America’s youngest adults about drinking etiquette?
Frictionless relationships are just a fantasy.
Plus trippy detective novels for when you just miss Twin Peaks.
The demographer is worried that we aren’t having as many babies as we used to — and says he knows how that could change.
I tried to make the perfect moral choice every time. It eroded my humanity.
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.
Is the group too diverse to think of with just one word?
One wildflower at a time.
Pricey, legal weed is great news — for the black market.
DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family,” explained.
That Tylenol’s shelf life is longer than you think.
It’s not cocaine, but it can be just about anything else — except a good idea.
Una industria inesperada está en auge en Colombia. Esto es lo que la hace tan positiva.
Land of the free, home of the blazed.
Books to get you through the next four years.
There are practical, everyday ways to get out of your head and into community.
Author Eman Abdelhadi on imagining a better world.
Reconnecting with someone you’ve cut ties with isn’t easy — but it can be done.
A reader asks whether the latest developments in clean energy technology can help save the planet. We break it down.
In November’s edition of Ask a Book Critic, novels to scratch the surrealist itch, lesbian necromancers in space, and more.
Medicine shouldn’t be so hard to access — so the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is helping people make their own.
Split-ticket voting, the Senate, down-ballot issues, and more.
How to take charge of your finances, according to two divorce professionals.
Most men are walking red flags, according to TikTok.
Divorced people deserve gifts and parties too.
The aggressively, brutally companionless divorced guy aesthetic.
Dr. Gregory Berns on his surprising research on the emotional lives of dogs and cows.
Plus short stories to dip into when life gets busy, and small-town longings.
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Signing a new lease often comes with high upfront costs that some renters can’t afford. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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