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Mike Segar / Reuters What Do You Tell Your Kids About Online Privacy?
A call for parents to share the values and practices that they instill around digital life–and their fears about what could go wrong.
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Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters Privacy in the Information Age Is Not a Lost Cause
A champion of better protections for citizens and consumers argues that her fight is not a waste of time—and draws on history to justify her optimism.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters How People Like You Fuel Extremism
Discussing politics in groups of similarly minded people can be enough to stoke polarization—a frightening prospect in an era of social media.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Working Toward the Same Ends for Different Reasons
A better understanding of moral reasoning could help Americans cooperate on improving the country even amid deep disagreements.
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Alfred Cheng Jin / Reuters The Highest Form of Disagreement
The best way to argue is to take on your opponents’ strongest arguments, not their weakest ones.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Would Anyone Fear a Self-Driving Car?
An advocate for the technology argues that the leap of faith it demands is one that Americans have already made.
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Brian Snyder/ Reuters How to Reawaken a Sense of Solidarity in America
A professor of political philosophy counsels that “it is often possible to recognize and respect the moral integrity of others even when we disagree with them.”
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters Finding Faith in Democracy at Moments of National Conflict
A scholar of American history argues that unwavering commitment to republican values can turn the nation’s differences into a profound strength.
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Yoni Appelbaum Pondering How to Live Together
A question for the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival: In a country of diverse ideologies, how will Americans coexist in peace and prosperity?
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Darren Hauck / Reuters Wisconsin Republicans Consider Cracking Down on Campus Protests
The Badger State is debating a law that would suspend or expel students who shut down speakers or interfere with their free expression. Does it go too far?
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters How Drug Prohibition Fuels American Carnage
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears not to understand the most basic cost of the drug policy he recommends: the guarantee of violent crime.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Donald Trump No Longer Wants to 'Stay Out' of Syria
His interventionism is a betrayal of all who supported him due to his claim that the U.S. “gets nothing” from the conflict and should “stay out.”
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Gianni Fiorito / Mongrel Media The Film That’s Missing From the ‘Century’s Greatest’ Lists
The Great Beauty excels by offering an unsurpassed meditation on a question that confronts all humans lucky enough to live in modernity.
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David Ryder / Reuters 'You Have to Live With One Another'
A human-rights lawyer advises the left on how to seek advancement in a democracy.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Donald Trump's 'America Second' Cuba Policy
The president is pursuing a course that will harm American citizens––and that may help his family’s business interests by hurting its corporate rivals.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Buck Stops Over There
The commander in chief’s gravest decisions are being delegated to unaccountable generals who’ll be used to insulate him politically if things go wrong.
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Reuters What Do Spy Agencies Tell Foreign Governments About Americans?
A new ACLU freedom of information request aims to find out, in concert with civil society groups abroad seeking similar answers from their countries.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Republicans Are a Majority Without a Mandate
The political realities of the Trump-era render the party unable to govern the country effectively, often for reasons of its own making.
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Reuters / Mike Segar How Conservatives Awoke to the Dangers of Sean Hannity
The Fox News host is under attack as never before because many Americans are now forced to take what he says seriously for the first time.
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Neil Hall / Reuters How Far Should Societies Go to Prevent Terror Attacks?
Almost everyone is unwilling to do certain things to eliminate terrorism. And that is fortunate, for the endurance of a free society depends upon it.
