Trump’s Golan Heights Tweet Is a Gift to the Far Right
With a few strokes on his keyboard on Thursday, President Trump undermined one of the fundamental norms of international law. “After 52 years,” he tweeted, “it is time for the United States to fully...
View ArticleYes, Trump Obstructed Justice. And William Barr Is Helping Him Cover It Up.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders on Sunday, Attorney General William Barr revealed that he would not charge President Trump with obstruction of justice over his efforts to thwart the...
View ArticleHistory Will Damn Donald Trump
The Russia investigation is over. The story about Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia during the 2016 election is, in some ways, just beginning.Over the last two years, special counsel Robert...
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How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, says NSC-68, the planning document adopted by the Truman administration in 1950 and one of the foundational texts of the early Cold War, was...
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Right Makes Might
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has eagerly embraced foreign autocrats, portraying brutal dictators as allies to be courted and celebrated. He has backed Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince...
View ArticleThe Christianization of U.S. Foreign Policy
Last Thursday, Donald Trump announced, via Twitter, a radical shift in foreign policy, saying it was time to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied territory of Golan Heights, seized from...
View ArticleWhat Should Stacey Abrams Do?
To borrow from Irving Berlin, there was nothing Beto O’Rourke did that Stacey Abrams didn’t do better in her historic campaign for governor of Georgia. She came closer than Beto, the near-miss Senate...
View ArticleGive It Up, Democrats. The Russia Investigation Is Over.
For nearly two years, Democrats desperately hoped that Robert Mueller would ride in on a white horse and save the country from Donald Trump’s corrupt presidency. But three days after the special...
View ArticleThe Act Illuminates a Lethal Bond
Dee Dee Blanchard—who gave birth to her daughter, Gypsy Rose, on July 27, 1991—could not abide by the traditions of child-rearing. She rejected the most common narrative of parenthood, wherein her...
View ArticleA Foreign Policy Without War or Corporate Power
The left is thinking about foreign policy, sort of. Last October, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave a speech at Johns Hopkins, calling for a new progressive internationalism. Trumpism, he said, is as...
View ArticleHow China Is Outmaneuvering Trump on Trade
As Chinese President Xi Jinping concludes his first foreign trip of 2019, he can congratulate himself on at least one thing: masterfully making use of the daylight between Brussels and Washington when...
View ArticleIn Search of Generation Z
Once, not so long ago, I spent an afternoon emailing a few dozen evolutionary biologists. This was for my job, or one of my jobs—you know how millennials are (they’re broke, just like everyone else)....
View ArticleU.S. Counterterrorism’s Big Blindspot: Women
When the Trump administration, in late February, decided to block Hoda Muthana’s return to the United States, many saw it as an unfair and questionably legal denial of citizenship: Muthana, who...
View ArticleThe New Politics of the Retirement Crisis
In 2014, 64-year-old Jim Whitlock was earning a good salary as an inspector at Boeing, where he planned to work for another six years. His wife, Cheri, who was 54, was investigating public records for...
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Fat and Happy
Perhaps the most surprising thing that Leonard Nimoy did with his time on earth, more surprising even than playing an iconic human-Vulcan space professional on television, was publishing a book called...
View ArticleThe Russia Skeptics Are Committing the Sins They Despise
For two years, anti-Trump pundits breathlessly speculated about what Mueller Time, when it finally arrived, would bring—an airtight case for impeachment, perhaps? Those hopes were dashed last week when...
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Trump, Climate Change, and the Death of the Small Farm
Sometimes you have a bad year. That’s always been the reality of being a farmer or rancher. The business of growing crops and raising animals for profit requires two crucial elements for success that...
View ArticleThe Best, Most Inaccessible Show on Television
Most dreams, especially the bizarre synaptic fizzles right before waking, are banal nonsense. Certainly one’s own dreams have some meaningful resonance, and perhaps a Freudian analyst could untangle...
View ArticleThe Generational Backlash to Europe’s Climate Activists
Fourteen-year-old Franzi, who helps organize the climate-oriented Fridays for Future marches in Berlin, prefers angry responses from onlookers—like the father who shouted “fuck you” at a Munich...
View ArticleHow Green Was My Virtue
Whatever its other legacies may prove to be, classical liberalism—the public philosophy that organizes social relations around the principles of individualist market exchange—is looking more and more...
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