What the Pentagon Fears in Iran
How can the military build a strategy without an end goal?
When Caring Becomes Counterculture
Tim Miller on what he saw in Minnesota, why “Resist libs” turn off younger generations, and whether Never Trump has veered too far to the left. Plus: reacting to Trump’s tariff defeat and rethinking the tradition of the State of the Union.
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
Are we in another acceleration phase for AI?
Trump’s Backlash to Black History
The efforts to whitewash history call for a new approach to memorializing Black history.
The End of Reagan-Era Republicanism
Mona Charen on how Trump transformed the conservative movement and what the right got wrong. Plus: Signs of life from America’s guardrails and John Maynard Keynes’s “My Early Beliefs.”
Is AI Ruining Music?
What we can learn from one band’s fight to protect its creative core
Iran Wants Him Arrested. He’s Going Back Anyway.
After Jafar Panahi is done promoting his Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, he plans to return to his home country—despite the threat of a prison sentence.
How Trump Could Break the 2026 Elections
Stephen Richer on President Trump’s 2020 election denial, standing up to threats, and the Fulton County raid. Plus: Trump’s racist Obama meme and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Meaning of Melania
The most interesting part of the first lady’s film is what it leaves out.
The Manosphere Breaks Containment
The internet’s new extremists will do anything for the algorithm.
Democracy Under Occupation
What we’ve learned in Minneapolis
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.
How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post
The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.
Trump vs. Canada
Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on annexation threats, the unraveling of U.S.-Canada relations, and how Trump is forcing allies to rethink democracy, defense, and immigration. Plus: the Trump family’s astonishing U.A.E. crypto deal and Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist.
How to Survive the Information War
There’s more information than ever—and that could be a good thing.
Rise of the Trump Loyalist
The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.
‘This Has Got to End’
Tim Walz on the “all-out attack on all of state government”
What the Neocons Got Right
David Brooks on moral collapse, the limits of politics, and what the neocons got right about America. Plus: Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis and Netflix’s Death by Lightning.
Another Death in Minneapolis
After killing another American, federal officials again offer an explanation that appears to be directly contradicted by available evidence.
ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content
When officials record themselves, they become content creators, too.