The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
When Work Is a Terrifying Dystopia
Severance is an unsettling satire about never being able to leave the office.
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
Autocracy Crushed My Alma Mater. Then I Got to Columbia.
Smolny College is a warning.
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
A Military Loyal to Trump
In 2020, the armed forces were a bulwark against Donald Trump’s antidemocratic designs. Changing that would be a high priority in a second term.