Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s Middle East Policy Is a Fraud
He’s flailing. There’s no telling what’s next.
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Ted Thai / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... Why Readers Resented Harold Bloom
I tried to stump him—and only once succeeded.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Betrayed the Kurds. He Couldn’t Help Himself.
Humiliating his own Cabinet secretaries was bad. Putting faithful American allies in harm’s way is far worse.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
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Reuters After Poland, No Democracy Is Safe
In the age of populism, certainty about the political future is a dangerous illusion.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Defiance Is Destroying Congress’s Power
Congress and the White House have a tense relationship, and future administrations might well choose to build on rather than repudiate the Trump example of how to respond to a hostile Congress.
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Reuters ISIS Is Gloating
The best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The NCAA Will Never Fix Itself
The presidential candidate Cory Booker, a former Stanford athlete, thinks big-name college sports have gone awry—and he wants Congress to step in.
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Start Planting Trees
Recently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at…
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Jason O'Brien / Reuters The Best Athlete Americans Have Never Heard Of
American pro athletes face pressure to stick to sports. Australia’s David Pocock has a different idea.
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Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto / Getty Trump’s Court Artist
Jon McNaughton once painted landscapes and religious scenes. Now he’s focused on reverently depicting the Trump era for future generations.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Democrats Are Going to Regret Beto’s Stance on Conservative Churches
The candidate seems not to realize that eliminating tax exemptions for certain religious institutions would be catastrophic.
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Noah Berger / AP Alone in the Dark in the Bay Area
People were on their own as their homes and businesses lost power.
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Aly Song / Reuters The NBA-China Disaster Is a Stress Test for Capitalism
The business of American business is business. Are we okay with that?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Conspiracy of Silence Is Cracking
Trump’s stonewalling relies on the willingness of others to stay quiet, and Marie Yovanovitch and Gordon Sondland are opting out.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Impeachable Tweets
Trump’s admissions on social media alone provide enough material for Congress to remove him.
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Aram Roston / Reuters The Story Keeps Getting Worse for the White House
A pair of men helping the president’s supposed anti-corruption campaign were apprehended as they tried to leave the United States.
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Veronica Cardenas / Reuters The Question Trump Republicans Must Ask Themselves
If they think Trump betrayed the Kurds, why do they still support him?
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Edmon de Haro Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.
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Bettmann / Getty The Contradiction at the Heart of Public Education
Gifted education puts in tension two equally treasured American ideals: egalitarianism and individualism.
