The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before
The Trump administration tries to micromanage the domestic politics of American allies.
I Was Lucky to Be Alive. But I Missed Being Pretty.
A pump-up girl faces her own mortality.
The Push to Lead the Working Class Without Workers
Morris Katz played a key role in the Graham Platner fiasco. Now the midterms could hinge on his theory of politics.
Fall Is in the Air, Part II
More images of the season, as autumn colors reach their peak and people are out working in fields, going for walks, and taking photographs, while animals migrate or prepare for the winter to come
DOJ’s Try-Anything Approach
A wide range of last-minute schemes could seed the idea among Trump’s supporters that the election results can’t be trusted.
Can You See What Holds This Painting Together?
With his sly, vacant images, Roy Lichtenstein explored the distance that technology created between us and reality.
The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing
As an editor I can say that we are being flooded with AI-assisted work.
Forget Grit
Even the luminaries of the self-help genre have begun to recognize how little in life we can actually control.
I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind
Four decades ago, I escaped Communist Czechoslovakia for America. Now my adopted homeland reminds me of the one that I fled.
What If He Actually Did It?
I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.
The Epstein Spectrum
A moral exercise in a moral desert
The New Old Age
What a new life stage can teach the rest of us about how to find meaning and purpose—before it’s too late
Is Radicalism the Answer?
The legal scholar Samuel Moyn argues that moderates have given up on the emancipatory promise of liberalism.
The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.
In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Kids
Feisty children can be exhausting. They also possess a moral fire that deserves cultivating.
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
Trump Is Closing From Behind
His final plea to voters is not about the issues that matter the most to them.