Welcome to the Gerrymandering Apocalypse
America is quickly moving toward a system in which tens of millions of blue-state Republicans and red-state Democrats effectively have no congressional representation at all.
Make Culture Weird Again
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff.
So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
Why One Political Office Is So Mired in Scandals
Maybe giving lieutenant governors a lofty title with few responsibilities is a risky bet.
The One Place Trump’s Power Remains Constrained
In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun
The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst.
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
California Is Tired of Letting People Die
Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working?
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
Tilting the Playing Field
Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.
The Fantastical Storytelling of Nollywood Movies
Nigerian epic thrillers, Chimamanda Adichie’s books, and more culture and entertainment recommendations
What Happens When Attention Seeking Eclipses Policy Making
In the sweep of history, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s time in Congress will be a blip.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
Trump Under Pressure
Panelists joined to discuss events of the past month—and what they could mean for the president’s influence over Republicans.
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