They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
The Whole Country Is Starting to Look Like California
Housing prices are rising fast in red and purple states known for being easy places to build. How can that be?
A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.
The Making of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke
A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill
“Beautiful” it is not.
Why Can’t Americans Sleep?
Insomnia has become a public-health emergency.
Canada’s Terrible New Freedom
This Canada Day, Trump is fueling a very different kind of nationalism.
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”
The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change
Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.
The Christian Rocker at the Center of MAGA
Sean Feucht is bringing Christian nationalism to the masses.
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