Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Speech That Facebook Plans to Punish
The company may cede control of what it censors outright while restricting the reach of “borderline” content.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump Can’t Stop Confessing
Proving white-collar crimes is an exceedingly difficult task for prosecutors. Trump is doing his best to make it easier.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Does It Matter Where You Go to College?
Research suggests that elite colleges don’t really help rich white guys. But they can have a big effect if you’re not rich, not white, or not a guy.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Serving Trump Revealed Who John Kelly Always Was
Some who enter this president’s service are changed for the worse. Others have been that way all along.
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Danny Wild / USA Today Sports / Reuters Trump Doesn’t Want a Chief of Staff
Someone needs to get the White House under control—but the president won’t let it happen.
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Younis Al-Bayati / AFP / Getty Don’t Shut Down the Internet’s Biggest Jihadist Archive
Jihadology.net is a valuable resource for researchers, even if terrorists make use of it too.
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The Atlantic The Real Roots of American Rage
The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
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Evan Vucci / AP As Good an Attorney General as We’re Likely to Get
William Barr’s statements raise serious questions, but he appears far more qualified than the other candidates that Trump reportedly considered for the post.
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Frank Augstein / AP Arab Countries Are a Minefield for Scholars
Matthew Hedges wasn’t the first academic to stand accused of espionage, and he won’t be the last.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Lauren Daigle and the Lost Art of Discernment
The Christian musician says she is unsure about the morality of LGBTQ relationships. Not all of her fans are prepared to accept that.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger
Robert Mueller is closing in on the president and all his men.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Sometimes I Wish the Obamas Wouldn’t ‘Go High’
They were gracious to the Trumps. They had to be.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Wisconsin Republicans Are Shooting Themselves In the Foot
My friend Scott Walker should not sign the power-grabbing legislation.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Does Trump Even Understand How Tariffs Work?
It’s unclear what the president wants to accomplish with his trade war.
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Logan Wallace / AP There’s Finally a Persuasive Case of Election Fraud, and Republicans Don’t Care
A congressional race in North Carolina suggests that the likeliest threats to the integrity of elections aren’t the ones that GOP lawmakers are addressing.
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Jeffrey Myers / AP Pushing Back the Darkness in Pittsburgh
On the first night of Hanukkah, I returned to the synagogue where my husband is a rabbi for the first time since the October shooting.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials.
The American system has thrown them into debt, depressed their wages, kept them from buying homes—and then blamed them for everything.
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Erin Schaff / Reuters There’s an Exception to the Double-Jeopardy Rule
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the “separate sovereigns” doctrine in Gamble v. United States.
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Mike Blake / Reuters America’s Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical
The Democrats are too ideologically and ethnically diverse to field a presidential candidate who resembles the man in the White House.
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Misha Friedman / Getty How to Tell the Stories of Immigration
Journalism requires holding power to account—but also telling people about other people.
