What the Border-Hawk Catholics Get Wrong
Critics of Pope Francis’s views on immigration are sidestepping a long-standing Catholic tradition—while claiming to uphold it.
Ideas
The Political Fight of the Century
For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.
Diagramming the Pacific Circuit
In the Bay Area, as elsewhere, the working classes have seen their jobs go overseas and their neighborhoods become unaffordable.
Sex Without Women
What happens when men prefer porn?
‘What About Six Years of Friendship and Fighting Together?’
The stain of betrayal in Afghanistan is now on Republican hands.
The Lesson Trump Is Learning the Hard Way
The U.S. has a lot of leverage over trade—but using it is not as simple as it seems.
Buy, Borrow, Die
How to be a billionaire and pay no taxes
Columbia University’s Anti-Semitism Problem
If the bullying of Jewish students had happened to any other group, the institution would be appalled.
One Word of Truth Shall Outweigh the Whole World
The Russian author’s Nobel Prize lecture contains an urgent message for contemporary audiences.
Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar
Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.