Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He's also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the "two Ms"—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president?
The Supreme Court's greatest failing is not ideological bias—it's the justices' increasingly tenuous grasp of how the real world works
Actually, the Supreme Court's problem is not merely disconnection from the real world—it's also arrogance, dishonesty, grandiosity, and a lack of respect for principle, history, or logic
Terrorism tallies; do good grades cost minority kids popularity?; the long-term benefits of nonviolence; why athletes should wear red
Atlantic writing from the 1960s to the present on cloning, in vitro fertilization, egg donation, sperm donation, and more.
Death row and a brothel in Las Vegas; a pilot's lecture on creationism; genealogy and the Mormons; higher learning in Austin; a gun show in Fort Worth; and the rain-struck opening of the Clinton Library
It'll be George W. Bush, if he doesn't change his economic policies soon
A liberal's case for the death penalty; can Iraq stop worrying about Iran?; bottomless appetites; congressional cheats
The U.S. real-estate bubble is likely to leak, not pop
Caroline Elkins, the author of Imperial Reckoning, talks about unearthing the sinister underside of Britain's "civilizing" mission in Kenya
Grade inflation at Cornell; what the Saudis are teaching Muslims in America; what the UN does better than the United States
In the 1930s a series of articles by the French author Raoul de Roussy de Sales commented on politics, courtship, and identity in American life
How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found
What does it take for an immigrant to shift from "you" to "we"?
Social Security reform—an explanation
Why you shouldn't trust your real-estate agent; the financial cost of expelling gays from the military; how to spot a crooked CEO
Bernard-Henri Lévy speaks with David Brooks about America—its patriotism, its religion, its ideology
Smart women stay single; why religious Americans fear Muslims; Israel's surprisingly bright demographic future; are the left-handed better in a fight?
A collection of writings—some by Brown's friends and collaborators—sheds light on the abolitionist who took a violent stand against slavery
It may be hard to get into Harvard, but it's easy to get out without learning much of enduring value at all. A recent graduate's report
The promise and perils of Bush's "ownership society"
Chart: Where Yahoo's Tumblr Ranks Next to Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest
Eric Schmidt: Kim Jong Un Could Turn On North Korea's Internet if He Wanted
Will 'Digital Ethnic Cleansing' Be Part of the Internet's Future?
NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes
This Is the Biggest Mistake 60-Year Old Men Make About the Economy
College Enrollment Is Falling Faster Than We Thought (Good News!)
In Homage to The Office: What's the Worst Job You've Ever Had?
A Simple Graph That Should Silence Austerians and Gold Bugs Forever
The Amazing David Beckham Goal That Sent England to the 2002 World Cup
Good News: The Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer Is Quite Funny
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