Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong
Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.
Ideas
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