J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
Ideas
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability
First, stop making things worse.
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.
The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump
The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.
Trump’s Power Grab Over the Budget Is Breaking the Constitutional Design
If this pattern holds, the result will be more wild swings in policy across administrations.
How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
What J. D. Vance—And Many Others—Miss About American Anti-Semitism
Making anti-Semitism about your ideological enemies doesn’t help anyone understand, let alone solve, the problem.
Circles of Epstein Hell
Though association with the man is certainly worthy of scrutiny, not everyone in his network is guilty of participation in his abusive sexual enterprise—or necessarily guilty at all.