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Ilya Milstein Too Much Democracy Is Bad for Democracy
The major American parties have ceded unprecedented power to primary voters. It’s a radical experiment—and it’s failing.
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Tyler Comrie Twitter Needs a Pause Button
Instantaneous communication can be destructive. We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Gerrymandering Ruling Was Bad, but the Alternatives Were Worse
Highly partisan redistricting is a scourge, but the solutions involve political judgments that no court should make.
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Edmon de Haro Fact-Checking the President in Real Time
Even robots are trying to hold Donald Trump accountable.
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Katie Martin It’s Time to Drop the ‘LGBT’ From ‘LGBTQ’
The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities
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Joe McKendry Adolescence and ‘the Happiness Dip’
A very short book excerpt
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Edmon de Haro Boycott the Republican Party
If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees.
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Edmon De Haro The Conservative Case for Unions
How a new kind of labor organization could address the grievances underlying populist anger
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Jeffrey Smith Containing Trump
He may well try to govern as an authoritarian. Whether he succeeds depends less on what he does than on how civil society responds.
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Edmon de Haro What Obama Got Right
The outgoing president has resolved old problems and avoided new ones.
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Phil Toledano How American Politics Went Insane
It happened gradually—and until the U.S. figures out how to treat the problem, it will only get worse.
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Edmon de Haro Amateurs in the Oval Office
Why Americans tend more and more to want inexperienced presidential candidates
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Ji Lee Stripping J. Edgar Hoover’s Name From the FBI Building
The Confederate flag has been taken down at South Carolina’s Capitol. Why not get J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the Bureau’s headquarters?
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Edmon De Haro Be Not Afraid
When President Obama tells Americans to stop worrying, he’s accused of fecklessness. But he has a point: we have never been safer.
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All photos by Chris Buck The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis
What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age
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Johnny Selman The Great Secession
Faced with sweeping social change, conservative Christians are walling themselves off from secular society. But when religion isolates itself, both sides lose.
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James Walton The Case for Corruption
Why Washington needs more honest graft
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Javier Jaén Benavides The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly
Medical treatment for aging, chronically ill patients is costly and often ineffective. Can they get better care at home?
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Matt Dorfman The Case for Hate Speech
How Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell, and Orson Scott Card have advanced the cause of gay rights
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Worst. Sex. Ever.
What happens when a young man who doesn't yet know he's gay tries to get into bed with a woman? An excerpt from Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul, a new memoir of self-torment and sexual discovery.
