Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Jordan Gale / Reuters Biden's Gaffe Exposed the Crack in His Coalition
The former vice president draws particular support from older white voters and from African Americans—but when he waxes nostalgic, he reminds them of their differences.
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Leah Millis / Reuters AOC’s Critics Are Pretending Not to Know How Language Works
A great deal of communication is based on metaphor.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters Should We Be Afraid of AI in the Criminal-Justice System?
Many states and cities are putting Americans’ fates in the hands of algorithms.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Children America Throws Away
A young gun-rights activist is entitled to mercy and understanding. But so are the millions of other children who never get it.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Bolton Keeps Trying to Goad Iran Into War
Throughout its history, America has attacked countries that did not threaten it.
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Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters Are Politics Regressing to Premodern Forms?
The sultan of Brunei has proposed stoning as a punishment for male sodomy.
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Image Source via Getty Give Us Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A new book proposes we let robots do all the work.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations
Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.
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Bitwise Goes Big
Four years ago, my wife, Deb, and I wrote about an ambitious and unusual tech startup called Bitwise Industries, in…
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Associated Press Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth
The debate over reparations highlights the dual purpose of the holiday: celebrating emancipation but also demanding accountability for historical and present wrongs.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty Images Legal Abortion Isn’t the Problem to Be Solved
The real problem is that families are primed to see a fetal anomaly as a catastrophe in waiting.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Los Angeles Is in Crisis. So Why Isn’t It Building More Housing?
Rising rents are feeding a surge in homelessness.
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Associated Press The Astonishing Rise of Existential Threats
Have 2020 candidates been reading too much French philosophy?
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Amr Nabl / AP The Tragedy of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Morsi was a deeply flawed but democratically elected president. His death shows how much his country has lost.
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Aly Song / Reuters Trump Never Stopped Campaigning Long Enough to Govern
The president is “officially” kicking off his reelection bid—for perhaps the fifth time.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Harvard Should Handle the Kyle Kashuv Mess
The university and its critics can transform this polarizing culture war controversy into a constructive moment––if both take steps to placate the other side.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Sinister Assault on Truth
The president appears committed to destroying the very idea of facts.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters Julián Castro Wants to Hold Police Accountable
In an interview, the presidential hopeful outlines ambitious plans for reforming immigration and policing.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters China Is Cutting Tariffs—For Everyone Else
As Trump focuses on disruption, Beijing is evidently operating on a higher level.
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Jim Dyson / Getty Birth Is Not the Finish Line
As the battle over abortion intensifies once again, lawmakers should listen to Americans’ moral intuitions about when personhood begins.
