What Should You Let Your Kids Read?
Giving them some independence can help rekindle their love of books.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The Mess at Airports Is Part of a Larger Pattern
What’s behind the Newark-airport fiasco
The Scientist vs. the Machine
What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?
The Efficacy of Prayer
“The very question ‘Does prayer work?’ puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset.”
A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
Would you raise kids with your best pals?
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
Trump and the Crown Prince
He’s the American president Gulf leaders have been waiting for.
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
The Trump administration talks tough on crime but shrugs off the work of real law enforcement.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
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.