The Queens Man Ruled Ineligible to Be President
Donald Trump’s unlikely legal doppelgänger could be a guy named Abdul Hassan.
Five Reasons the FBI Failed to Prepare for January 6
Trump did his part in inciting the insurrection, but the nation’s law-enforcement institutions shouldn’t escape scrutiny for their missteps.
What Conservatives Misunderstand About Radicalism at Universities
Elite schools are floundering in their attempts to navigate the Israel-Palestine conflict because they have passed the better part of a decade making themselves political.
Let the Activists Have Their Loathsome Rallies
I am grateful to call home a country where, despite illiberal criticism of open debate, freedom of expression still prevails.
Inside Biden’s ‘Hug Bibi’ Strategy
The president believes the best way to shape Israeli strategy is to start with reassurance, and then use the trust he’s built.
The Best of Bad Options for Recovering the Hostages
This terrible crisis leaves no good choices—but the U.S. may have more ways to pressure Hamas than Israel does.
China Changed Its Mind About World War II
What the Pacific version of the Nuremberg trials left undone
Judge Chutkan’s Impossible Choice
Which itself is only going to lead to more impossible choices.
Poland Shows That Autocracy Is Not Inevitable
The ruling party tried to use the Polish state to hold on to power, but voters rejected the effort.
What Hamas Wants
The straightforward explanation that the experts missed
Newt Gingrich’s Degraded Legacy
Gingrich had a vision of what America ought to be about. But his successors seem dour and unimaginative in their pugnacity.
Something Is Golden in the State of Denmark
Can Novo Nordisk’s success really be a problem for the Danish economy?
Black Success, White Backlash
Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.
Students for Pogroms in Israel
By excusing murder and kidnapping, activist groups have already changed campus politics in America.
Trump’s Only Real Worldview Is Pettiness
The presidential candidate is pro-Israel or anti-Israel depending on his personal grudges.
The Good Luck of a Hard Life
How growing up with a pair of dice in one hand and a pistol in the other prepared Rich Paul for success
The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test
The attack refutes the flawed assumption that all social-justice causes fit neatly together.
Why Uncontacted Tribes Want to Stay Uncontacted
The life and afterlife of a monstrous Victorian adventurer
A Uniquely Terrible New DEI Policy
At stake: the First Amendment rights and academic freedom of 61,000 professors who teach 1.9 million students
The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War
Gathering the right intelligence isn’t always enough.