Conor Friedersdorf
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Perils of a Psychological Approach to Anti-racism
A controversy within a professional organization illustrates how well-intentioned people can undermine their own goals.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why Did the Border Patrol Union Switch Its Position on the Wall?
The NBPC once opposed “wasting taxpayer money on building fences and walls along the border.”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Oval Office Speech Was Never Going to Succeed
White House addresses gain their power from the dignity and moral authority of the office—and that’s not the nature of Trump’s appeal.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Tucker Carlson’s Monologue Insults His Viewers
The Fox News host purports to side with “normal Americans” over greedy elites, but fails to tell his viewers the truth.
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Reuters / Carlo Allegri Reflections on a Year of Outrage
Our culture is losing its ability to focus on the problems that really matter.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters What the Syria Hawks Refuse to Acknowledge
The strongest case for delaying withdrawal elides something essential about American foreign policy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters How the Press Sustains the Forever War
Too much media coverage of Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria treats indefinite deployments as the only legitimate option.
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Elise Amendola / AP The ACLU Takes Aim at Criminal-Defamation Laws
The civil-rights group is backing a test case arguing that New Hampshire’s statute violates the Constitution.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Against Trump Visiting the Troops
Seven reasons why the president should stay home, watch TV, and let Mike Pence visit the men and women serving in conflict zones
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Khaled Abdullah / Reuters Trump Is Helping the Saudis Starve Yemen
And House Republican leaders are thwarting efforts in Congress to stop him.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Bigger Failure Exposed by Jazmine Headley’s Arrest
Why were police officers called to the scene in the first place?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Perhaps the Most Effective Way to Fight Racism
The filmmaker Deeyah Khan is the latest anti-racist to enjoy success by engaging, rather than shunning, people with deplorable beliefs.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Speech That Facebook Plans to Punish
The company may cede control of what it censors outright while restricting the reach of “borderline” content.
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Jim Young / Reuters Sadism in the St. Louis Police Department
Three cops who expressed an eagerness to brutalize protesters unintentionally targeted the one person likely to get them arrested.
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Evan Vucci / AP Donald Trump Gave Russia Leverage Over His Presidency
A foreign adversary has possessed potentially damaging information about the president for an extended period of time.
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AP Why Have White Women So Often Voted for Republicans?
The claim that their votes have always been motivated by support for white patriarchy is difficult to square with the historical record.
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Reuters / Win McNamee One Criminal-Defense Attorney’s Lament
Scott Greenfield argues that innocents are being sacrificed in the name of utopian causes.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty 13 Easy Tips for Politicizing Your Thanksgiving Dinner
How to navigate tricky holiday conversations in 2018. Also: Black Friday ideas!
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Leah Millis / Reuters The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights
The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.
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Reuters / Stringer Is a Spreadsheet’s Creator Liable for the Allegations It Contains?
A look at the case law that shapes a legal gray zone
