Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
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.
Trump Hands the World to China
Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American power.
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.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention
Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.
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.
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
The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
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.
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Moron Factory
A short story
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.
The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
DOGE’s Reign of Ineptitude
Slashing and burning won’t help with efficiency.
A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons
Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache, but rather a tender exploration of human intimacy.
What Is It About Pamela Anderson?
The model and actor drove men wild. She’s still enduring the consequences.