A Cautionary Tale for Trump Appointees
The evidence of the past few days suggests that they are all deluding themselves.
The Free-Speech Phonies
Donald Trump and Elon Musk never believed in anyone’s free speech except their own.
The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App
Imagine if digital matchmakers had no financial incentives.
Trump Hands the World to China
Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American power.
How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.
DOGE’s Reign of Ineptitude
Slashing and burning won’t help with efficiency.
A Sea Story
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place two decades ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and unofficial reports and survivor testimony, our correspondent has distilled an account of the Estonia’s last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas.
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
Intimidating Americans Will Not Work
Trump is punishing Americans who don’t say the words he likes best. That’s not how it works in America.
The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials
NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly.
A Terrible Milestone in the American Presidency
Trump switches sides in the war for freedom.
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
Americans Are Stuck. Who’s to Blame?
Yoni Appelbaum on his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?
In an interview with Sean Hannity, three men demonstrated that they have no idea how American democracy works.
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.
Watching Opera on a Jumbotron
And why I wouldn’t recommend it