Ideas

Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong

Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.

The Maternal-Mortality Crisis That Didn’t Happen

Many advocates wrongly presume that gloom and doom is the only way to motivate change.

Trump Has a New Plan to Deal With Campus Protests

And he doesn’t seem to care that it violates the Constitution.

Is America Ready for ‘Degrowth Communism’?

Kohei Saito’s theory of how to solve climate change is economically dubious and politically impossible. Why is it so popular?

Mark Robinson Is Testing the Bounds of GOP Extremism

If he loses, the Republicans have a problem. If he wins, they also have a problem.

Pat McAfee and the Threat to Sports Journalism

“Good seg, good seg.”

Nuclear Energy’s Bottom Line

The United States used to build nuclear-power plants affordably. To meet our climate goals, we’ll need to learn how to do it again.

What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it.

The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change

Clean-energy investment in America is off the charts—but it still isn’t translating into enough electricity that people can actually use.

I Carried Out the Strike That Killed Soleimani. America Doesn’t Understand the Lesson of His Death.

Inside the decision to assassinate Iran’s ruthless general

The Unbearable Greatness of Djokovic

Novak Djokovic may be the greatest tennis player ever—and I can’t stand him.

Trump’s Assassination Fantasy Has a Darker Purpose

The ex-president’s stories of his own victimization make violence by his supporters far more likely.

Trump’s Money Problems Are Becoming a Crisis for the Entire Country

The ex-president’s financial troubles make him beholden to his wealthy friends. If he’s president again, they will want something in return.

What Monastic Mystics Got Right About Life

If this path to happiness worked for Saint Thomas Aquinas, it can work for you.

How Do the Families of the Hamas Hostages Endure the Agony?

If you’re Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents, by crusading nonstop for his and other hostages’ release.

The Difference Between Polls and Public Opinion

What respondents tell pollsters doesn’t always make sense. But working out policy complexities isn’t the average voter’s job.

The Great Academic Squirm

To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role.

The Real Meaning of Trump’s ‘Unified Reich’ Post

The video the former president reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

Higher Education Isn’t the Enemy

Those who threaten academic freedom, from outside or inside campus, are threatening higher education itself—to America’s peril.

The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing

Beware technology that makes us less human.