What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?
The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.
The Only Way to Stop the Financial Crisis
Trump isn’t listening to what the stock market is telling him. He’s not negotiating with foreign leaders in good faith. He’s not hearing what corporate CEOs are saying.
The Catholics Who Have to Worship Somewhere Else
How the Latin Mass split the Church
Trump World Makes the Case Against Trump
MAGA supporters are attempting to understand Trump’s catastrophic decision making, while accepting Trump’s infallibility as a given.
How to Prepare for a Recession
The older you are, and the more likely you are to get laid off, the more important it is to have liquid savings.
The Democrats Won’t Acknowledge the Scale of Trump’s Tariff Mess
The president’s allies are putting up a bigger fight than the opposition party is.
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
The Trump administration’s arguments in a high-profile immigration case have much broader implications.
America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong
Her ghostwritten autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.
Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun
Towns near the Canadian border are suffering.
Why America’s Oligarchs May Regret Their Obedience
Putin’s Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
Take Trump Seriously About Greenland
The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.
Trump Is Gaslighting Us
Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.
Foreign Tourists Are Taking Trump at His Word
Deliberately insulting other countries is bad for the U.S. economy.
Wall Street Blew It
Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.
Make Smuggling Great Again
Canada’s ultimate retaliation for Trump’s tariffs will be to turn ordinary Americans who cross the border to shop for cheaper goods into latter-day bootleggers.
The Trump Team Has a Double Standard on State Secrets
Officials have been careless with sensitive information while claiming that innocuous facts can’t be public.
Defying the Courts Will Backfire
The public has not responded kindly to other politicians who have tried this in the past.
Trump’s Jewish Cover Story
The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.