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Trump Has Found His Class Enemy

The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.

The SNL Parody That Captured the Tariffs Chaos

The show found an ideal vehicle for satirizing the country’s economic anxiety.

Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

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.

America and Its Universities Need a New Social Contract

Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered universities must redress the balance—helping the country and themselves.

There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster

America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get

People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun

Towns near the Canadian border are suffering.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail

The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

A Film That Throws Out the War-Movie Playbook

In Alex Garland’s new military drama, soldiers spend as much time waiting around as they do in battle.

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived

The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.

Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class?

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past.

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler

Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.