Ideas

There Once Was a Republican Fight for D.C. Statehood

RIP

It’s Not Too Late to Avert a Historic Shame

As the U.S. military prepares to leave Afghanistan, it’s running out of time to evacuate the Afghans who have helped the United States.

Kids Need Dirt and Danger

Malka Haas turned children loose to play with discarded objects, giving them a different sort of preparation for life.

Fox News Gets a British Accent

The U.K.’s newest television channel bets that American–style grievance politics will succeed in a much stuffier media market.

America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder

John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.

Extremism Has Spread Into the Mainstream

It is a public-health problem, not a security issue.

What Ilhan Omar Actually Said

No one should believe that Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban.

The False Hope of the Progressive-Prosecutor Movement

Well-intentioned reformers can’t fix the criminal legal system. They have to start relinquishing power.

Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution

High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.

The Myth of a Majority-Minority America

The narrative that nonwhite people will soon outnumber white people is not only divisive, but also false.

The Public-Health Calculus Has Shifted

Mandates and restrictions have a logical endpoint: when people can protect themselves through vaccination.

The NYC Mayor’s Race Is a Warning for Progressives

Polls suggest the left will lose out in the city arguably leading the socialist revival in the United States.

The One-Size-Fits-All Narrative of Your 20s Needs to Change

Your 20s don’t have to be the “best time of your life.”

Justice Breyer’s Legacy-Defining Decision

The longer Breyer remains, the more likely a Republican president choosing his successor becomes.

Trump’s DOJ Was More Dangerous Than We Knew

Revelations since Biden’s inauguration are adding detail to a portrait of ethical decay at the department.

Trumpists Are America’s Jacobites

45 meets the ’45. Outlander meets outlandish.

The Drug That Could Break American Health Care

Aduhelm, the first new Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, may not work. But states and Medicare might pay billions of dollars for it anyway.

The Moral Catastrophe Unfolding in Afghanistan

If no action is taken, we are, in effect, sentencing our interpreters to death at the hands of the Taliban.   

Gymnastics Doesn’t Know What to Do With Simone Biles’s Dominance

Her greatness is a form of resistance.

It Wasn’t Just Another Nightclub

Five years ago, I went to cover the Pulse shooting—and found myself unexpectedly close to the story.