Let’s Get Specific About These Doomsday Scenarios
How exactly is AI supposed to kill us all?
Ideas
Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
Why Fauda Is So Popular in the Arab World
Viewers may find, in the fictions of a TV show, a more realistic portrayal of their world than they are usually offered.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Faced Too Much Apathy to Win
Fixing troubled schools requires collective action, and no one should underestimate the difficulty.
Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School
I admire Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice. I am making a different one.
David Ellison Will Get Control of CNN After All
And don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise
The ‘New Word’ Trump Hates
Affordability is the Democrats’ unifying theme. It may be enough to carry them to victory in the midterms.
Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever
Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.
In Defense of Guilt by Association
The wisdom of judging politicians by the company they keep