The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry
A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.
Ideas
Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
A Terrible Way to Die, a Terrifying Way to Survive
America’s experiment with lethal injection has failed.
Want to Reform Democracy? Start Here.
A more constrained executive branch could begin to take shape with a smaller pardon power—and a bigger House of Representatives.
Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties
The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.
A Near Disaster on Flydubai
This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications.
Eric Schmitt’s Very Bad Day at Work
For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.
Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”
How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?