China Called Trump’s Bluff
There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.
The Trump Trade-War Scam
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
Retirement Is the New Resistance
The Democrats waging war on their gerontocracy
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
Who Counts as Christian?
A new initiative will necessitate that the Trump administration makes difficult judgment calls about the faith.
An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax
What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?
How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert
Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
An Old-School Pitching Coach Says I Told You So
Leo Mazzone was right about the undue focus on pitch velocity.
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
And start raising kind ones.
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
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