Fact-Checking Is Not a Political Strategy
A decade of myth-busting has had next to zero impact on Donald Trump’s electoral viability.
A decade of myth-busting has had next to zero impact on Donald Trump’s electoral viability.
J. D. Vance has signaled that he’s more than ready to renew Donald Trump’s effort to unwind the Affordable Care Act.
The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
More than 1 million Americans are still without electricity. EV owners are using their cars to keep the lights on.
The vice-presidential candidate’s foes see him as unlikable—but MAGA world sees him as a brainy counterweight to Trump.
Many people who take GLP-1 drugs find that their cravings disappear. I went to a Buddhist monastery to try to understand why that doesn’t feel like enlightenment.
In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual.
J. D. Vance put a sheen on Trumpism, and Tim Walz’s niceness unwittingly helped him succeed.
Images from the past weekend showing some of the devastation in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee
The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts.
How will they interpret the past?
Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
“But even if destruction is the end, I believe that it is better than what is offered us. A nation cannot attain freedom with the alien in the country.”
Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city
In the vice-presidential debate, the Republican claimed that Trump “peacefully gave over power on January 20.”
Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East
Why we need to face the best arguments from the other side
His new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration