Corrections

Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’

Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the Republican mainstream.

• Adam Serwer
• May 18, 2022

Nothing Beautiful Survives the Culture War

Parenthood itself seems poised to become a victim of America’s toxic politics.

• Elizabeth Bruenig
• May 8, 2022

Man’s Other Best Friend

Domesticating horses changed humanity forever. Where and when did it first happen?

• Amber Dance
• May 7, 2022

Don’t Fight in Another Country’s War

A Ukrainian victory should be as Ukrainian as possible.

• Graeme Wood
• April 26, 2022

The Shame Deficit

As a transplant from England, I’ve been repeatedly struck by the weakness of norms against nepotism in the American elite—particularly the continued practice of legacy admissions.

• Richard V. Reeves
• April 19, 2022

The End of Presidential Debates

Only those conversant with the pro-Trump right’s myths and legends will be able to decipher the Republican National Committee’s latest decision.

• David Frum
• April 18, 2022

Dianne Feinstein Is the Future of the Senate

And that’s the problem.

• David A. Graham
• April 15, 2022

What Trump Is Hiding

Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.

• David Frum
• March 29, 2022

The Fall of the Azzurri

The losses, even more than the victories, hook you for life.

• Adam Serwer
• March 25, 2022

The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken

But it doesn’t have to be.

• Jeffrey Selingo
• March 23, 2022

‘I Know the Government Fell, but I Never Fell’

Women who served in the Afghan military are pleading for help, as Taliban fighters are hunting them down.

• George Packer
• March 10, 2022

How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?

The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?

• Ed Yong
• March 8, 2022

The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin

The U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic states should pursue three objectives.

• Eliot A. Cohen
• March 7, 2022

Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West’s Liberal Order

The Russian president thought he sensed an opportunity to take advantage of a disunited West. He has been proved wrong.

• Kori Schake
• February 28, 2022

Canada’s Trucker Blockades Are a Warning

If a crackdown on protesters goes bad, the negative consequences may not be confined to the country.

• David Frum
• February 11, 2022

The GOP Has No Standards Now

Shredding the Constitution should disqualify anyone applying for a job protecting the Constitution.

• John Dickerson
• February 9, 2022

How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society

The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections.

• Derek Thompson
• February 4, 2022

Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?

The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.

• Derek Thompson
• January 27, 2022

Meat Loaf Owned the Power Ballad

The late singer took the genre to unapologetically grandiose, glorious new heights.

• Jason Heller
• January 24, 2022