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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Tucker Carlson Is Hurting America Again
As a demagogic president seeks to escape accountability by attacking the press, a Fox News host is irresponsibly echoing his sweeping attacks on mainstream outlets.
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Reuters The American Who Says He’s Been the Target of Five Air Strikes
A federal judge is allowing his suit to proceed, finding that his “interest in avoiding the erroneous deprivation of his life is uniquely compelling.”
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Reuters Trump’s ‘Great Chemistry’ With Murderous Strongmen
The United States diminished itself by electing a man who so often winds up needlessly praising dictators.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address
At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Congress May Declare the Forever War
A proposed law with bipartisan support would dramatically weaken the ability of legislators to extricate the United States from perpetual armed conflict.
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Reuters What One Professor’s Case for Hating Men Missed
A gender-studies scholar penned an essay laying out the logic of such loathing—but it falls short of its mark.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters A Decision Too Important for Rick Perry
The Trump administration and its allies in Congress want the secretary of energy to determine whether to develop a new class of low-yield nuclear weapons.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Mitch Daniels Urges Graduates to Resist Tribalism
The former Indiana governor, who leads Purdue University, believes that the hostility Americans are now showing one another is a threat to democracy.
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Reuters The Last Words of Robert F. Kennedy
In the months before he was assassinated, the Democratic presidential candidate insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Celebrity Pardoner
Donald Trump cares much more about the rich and famous than the common person.
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Andrew Cullen / Reuters ‘In My Isolation, I Searched for Sanity on the Internet’
A collection of reader concurrences and dissents with responses.
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Phil McCarten / Reuters Roseanne’s Wake-Up Call for the Populist Right
Her outburst of racist invective provided a lesson for the populist right that too few of its members are heeding.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Fly On, My Sleek Electric Bird
A hard-boiled plea to prevent the killing of an enterprise that could ease traffic––maybe enough for Angelenos to move about as fast as they did in Raymond Chandler’s day.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A Civil-Rights Icon Urges Law Grads to Defend Free Speech
Eleanor Holmes Norton used a commencement address at Georgetown to argue that securing positive, lasting change in America requires letting all sides have their say.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Undemocratic Spread of Big Brother
The ACLU is protesting new surveillance systems being peddled by Amazon—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Trump’s Business Schemes Warrant Their Own Investigation
The many signs of flagrant corruption that surround the president and his associates demand a separate probe.
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Leah Millis / Reuters ‘Without Personal Honor There Is No Leadership’
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emphasized the importance of truth in a commencement address at Virginia Military Institute that many interpreted as a rebuke to President Trump.
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters How Rhetoric on the Left Fuels Bigotry on the Right
The latest disagreement dividing opponents of Donald Trump
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Douglas C. Pizac / AP Sean Hannity Failed to Tell His Viewers the Truth
The Fox News host should have shared much more about his relationships with Donald Trump and Michael Cohen.
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Leah Millis / Reuters It’s Time for Trump Voters to Face the Bitter Truth
Republicans elected a president who promised to take on D.C.—instead, Trump has presided over an extraordinary auction of access and influence.
