Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Two Amy Klobuchars
In light of the revelations about the senator’s temper, let’s revisit her interrogation of Brett Kavanaugh.
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Martin Ouellet-Diotte / AFP / Getty What Does It Mean to Be a Canadian Citizen?
The country offers a cautionary tale about democracy and voting rights.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Lesson of the Jussie Smollett Case
Allegedly fraudulent reports support a narrative that many wish to believe.
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Thibault Camus / AP This Week in Anti-Semitism
The surge of hatred is increasingly hard to ignore.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Blame Congress for the National Emergency
Long ago, it could have required the president to meet certain requirements prior to unlocking this broad authority.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Progressives Risk Killing More Than the Amazon Deal
Cities can’t afford to stop growing—but they can grow differently.
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Jasmine Walls A Great, Forgotten Black Radical
Timothy Thomas Fortune isn’t a household name, but he had a profound influence on the struggle for civil rights.
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Jim Young / Reuters America Is Too Impeachment Obsessed
Relentless discussion may harm our democracy and inflame partisan dysfunction.
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Vatican Media / Reuters The Catholic Church’s Battle Between Rhetoric and Reality
Pope Francis wants “concrete” change over the Church’s child sexual-abuse scandal. It won’t be easy, though.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters It’s Foreign Policy That Distinguishes Bernie This Time
He’s challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Europe’s Ubiquitous Anti-Semitism
It’s like the flu: uncomfortable, occasionally deadly, but constantly with us.
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Wade Payne / Reuters The Dangers of a Mandatory DNA Database
A controversy in Arizona is a portent of future public-policy fights.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Accused College Students Deserve the Presumption of Innocence
Nineteen attorneys general are lobbying against extending that right in Title IX cases on campus.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals
It shows a peculiar aspect of 21st-century America: victimhood chic.
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Mark Humphrey / AP The Lessons Southern Baptists Need to Learn
America’s largest Protestant denomination is reeling from a sexual-abuse scandal. Can its leaders push through needed reforms?
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Leah Millis / Reuters Reckless Even by Roger Stone Standards
Never gratuitously annoy the person who is deciding how long you’ll spend in federal prison.
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Eric Baradat / AFP / Getty Images Why Is This Cross-Shaped Memorial Constitutional?
The Supreme Court seems poised to affirm that it can be displayed on public land—but a great deal rides on its rationale.
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Andreas Gebert / Reuters The Moment the Transatlantic Charade Ended
At the Munich Security Conference, Europe and the Trump administration stopped pretending to respect each other.
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Eric Miller / Reuters What Presidential Announcements Reveal About the Candidates
The speeches present the country’s condition as a puzzle that’s missing one piece, which the candidate can supply.
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Bettmann / Getty The New ‘New Education’
Charles Eliot charted a course of education reform 150 years ago. Now it falls to us to update his vision for today’s challenges.
