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.
Why Trump Paused the Tariffs
A stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does.
Trump Blinked
Or did he?
There Was Never a Master Plan
Trump backed down on tariffs. His supporters think that was the idea all along.
The Art of the Retreat
Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.
Americans Want to Be Rich
That simple aspiration propelled Trump into office, but it is now threatened by his tariffs.
Treating Friends Like Enemies
Rahm Emanuel and Trump’s tariff chaos
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts
The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.
Reclaim Imperfect Faces
Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.
The Catholics Who Have to Worship Somewhere Else
How the Latin Mass split the Church
How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World
Ancient DNA from 209 cats over 9,000 years tell the story of their dispersal.
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 Cost of Chaos
The Liberation Day pause is better than the Liberation Day policy itself was. But Americans are getting a raw deal one way or another.
The Comic-Book Artist Who Mastered Space and Time
Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.
Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun
Towns near the Canadian border are suffering.
Will Elise Stefanik Get the Last Laugh?
Inside Trump’s decision to kill the MAGA star’s Cabinet nomination
The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified
How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?