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
Israel Is Walking Into a Trap
Storming into Gaza will fulfill Hamas’s wish.
The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War
Gathering the right intelligence isn’t always enough.
Steve Scalise Bows Out
The unresolved speaker fight could determine whether the government stays open—and the future of U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine.
FTX’s Organizational Chaos
A witness testimony this week portrayed a workplace filled with fraught power dynamics, disorganization, and hubris.
Photos: Dire Conditions in Gaza
As Israel hits the region with retaliatory air strikes, the UN warns of a humanitarian crisis.
Israel Must Not React Stupidly
If this is Israel’s 9/11, it can learn from America’s mistakes.
What America Could Look Like in 2050
“I feel like it is a race, and I do not have the crystal ball to see the outcome,” one reader argues.
The Left Abandoned Me
After the brutal violence committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, I looked around for my friends on the left and felt alone.
The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim
The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast that Biden supporters want to project.
This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
The global town square is in ruins.
What Happened to Empathy?
We have become inured to human suffering.
The Protestant Sleep Ethic
A recent memoir considers how much we concede when we regard rest as a call to judgment.
Why the Most Successful Marriages Are Start-Ups, Not Mergers
The business world turns out to have a very useful metaphor for people thinking about how to find happiness in a romantic partnership.
Against Barbarism
We are in the fight of our lives.
Should You Delete Your Kid’s TikTok This Week?
Hostage videos could present a horrific new dilemma for parents.
Hamas May Not Have a Step Two
A day that started under control, with a coordinated surprise attack by literally thousands of armed men, does not appear to have ended that way.
Kamala Harris Is Trying to Change the Narrative
A conversation with Elaina Plott Calabro about her profile of the vice president