Conor Friedersdorf
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Brett Carlsen / Getty Why Callout Culture Helps Mike Bloomberg
The Democratic base has been crying wolf in matters of racism and sexism.
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AFP Contributor / Getty Evidence That Conservative Students Really Do Self-Censor
Is free speech imperiled on American college campuses?
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Isabel Pavia / Getty A Real Solution for Airport Security
Keep calm and wash your hands.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Laura Ingraham’s Attack on Romney Reveals the Swamp
The Fox News host suggested that the senator’s vote to convict the president will result in suffering for Utah citizens.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Why Second Chances for Prisoners Are So Hard to Come By
To justify the status quo, Americans ignore the possibility that convicted criminals will do something beneficial with their freedom.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / ... The Endorsement Problem Isn’t Going Away
Controversy over the Rogan endorsement revealed stark disagreements about who counts as a bigot, how this standard is set, and why.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP Images Why Kobe Mourning Is So Intense
His flaws and failures as a player were both real and inextricable from his inspiring achievements.
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Michelle Shephard / Reuters The Torturers Wanted to Stop, but the CIA Kept Going
An interrogator testified that even after prisoner Abu Zubaydah started cooperating, the waterboarding continued.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters The Talented Victim Is Not the Point
Americans will always seek out, discuss, and be moved by art that is messy, tense, and chaotic, whether the censors of any moment like it or not.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump a Jacksonian at Heart?
The right is having a vigorous foreign-policy debate.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump Can’t Handle a War of Choice
He’s too polarizing and commands too little respect from critics to lead such an effort effectively.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic 1776 Honors America’s Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not
Academic historians, conservatives, and Trotskyist socialists rightly reject The New York Times’ reframing of the past.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Yes, Democrats Have Been Itching to Impeach From the Start
Trump is distinguished not only by his misdeeds, but by the dearth of redeeming qualities to offset them.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Inside the Republican Case Against Impeachment
The GOP dissent is unpersuasive.
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Bazuki Muhammad / Reuters The Doves Were Right. I Was Wrong.
Americans like me ignored—or scorned—protesters who warned of an endless quagmire in Afghanistan. Next time, we should listen to the critics.
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters To Drain the Swamp, Start With Rudy Giuliani
MAGA nation should be outraged about President Trump’s personal attorney.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Why the Strongest Argument Against Impeachment Fails
A remorseless president may keep pressuring foreigners to help him win in 2020.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Does the First Amendment Hold at the Border?
Photojournalists are suing three federal border agencies.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Here’s What Should Disqualify Michael Bloomberg
New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is just one example of the former mayor’s lack of respect for civil liberties.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Look Who’s Trying to Seize Private Property
The Trump administration wants to use eminent domain to build the border wall.
