Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and the tragedies of the nation’s founding. Plus: Donald Trump’s TikTok giveaway and Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause.
Avoiding vulnerability comes with ghastly consequences.
The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.
A genuine reckoning with Meta and the surveillance state
How the United States learned to love internet censorship
It’s never been more exhausting to buy stuff.
A modern-day adaptation explains away cruelty rather than exploring it.
The case for a common, occasionally annoying, and secretly sweet digital habit
The Washington Post just wants you to like its TikToks.
TikTok’s experiment in shopping has quickly become another place to hawk products.