The Real Problem With the FAA
There’s a fundamental flaw in the way the United States guides airplanes around the country.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Congressional Republicans vs. Reality
GOP House leaders still can’t find a way to make the math of Trump’s tax bill add up.
How to Make Friendships Last Your Whole Life
“Swallow your pride and make the first move,” one reader says.
Germany Arrests King Peter I, the Son of Man, the Messiah
Peter identified sources of frustration and indignity that might bother virtually any German: how one navigates banking, taxation, health care, law.
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
My 6-Year-Old Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Found Out.
Opponents of COVID vaccines terrorize grieving families on social media.
Putin’s Still In Charge
Trump can’t end the Ukraine war, and he knows it.
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
The Coming Economic Nightmare
Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
I Saw the Movie ‘They’ Don’t Want You to See
Sound of Freedom and the limits of culture-war marketing
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
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