Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Why Won’t Barr Just Release the Mueller Report?
Before allowing the public and Congress to see it for themselves, the attorney general has called a Thursday-morning press conference.
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Reuters Segregation Is Preventable. Congress Just Isn’t Trying.
Again and again, federal efforts to promote integration have been whittled down almost to nothing.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Pete Buttigieg Is Using Cory Booker's Playbook
A young politician with an elite education, mayoral experience, and an optimistic vision? That sounds familiar.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Ty Cobb Was Right
The former White House lawyer counseled Trump to cooperate with Mueller and put the probe behind him. Instead, the president chose defiance.
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Chris Pizzello / Reuters I Like My Agents—But I Fired Them Anyway
What will happen to me, a workaday writer, on the other side of the WGA mess?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Last Constraint on Trump
The unwillingness of the president’s aides to carry out directives they suspect are illegal has been the most effective brake on his desires.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Bernie Sanders Pierces the Fox News Bubble
A town hall on the network was a risk for the self-described “democratic socialist.” It paid off.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters An Internet for Kids
Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Ilhan Omar’s Deeply American Message
The Minnesota lawmaker urged American Muslims to act like citizens, not guests. Other religious minorities should take note.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez Basing Laws on Nothing Is Easier Than Using Evidence
Partnerships between policy makers and researchers could improve the lives of millions—but they’re harder than you think.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Discrimination’s Digital Frontier
Ad platforms such as Facebook can perpetuate the types of harms that civil-rights laws are meant to address.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Democrats Are Falling Into the Ilhan Omar Trap
By rushing to stand with the controversial congresswoman, the 2020 contenders are allowing Trump to transform her into the face of their party.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters In Rwanda, We Know All About Dehumanizing Language
Years of cultivated hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Ilhan Omar Falls Victim to the Outrage Exhibitionists
In attacking the representative over a small, unintentional slight, Donald Trump and the populist right are displaying bad faith.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Unpardonable Challenge to the Constitution
The president regards the border as a lawless space, where courts have no purchase and the only thing that matters is strength of will.
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Peter Nichols / Reuters Julian Assange Got What He Deserved
Don’t continue to fall for his phony pleas for sympathy, his megalomania, and his promiscuity with the facts.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Implosion of Jeremy Corbyn
The leader of the Labour Party not only has failed to confront anti-Semitism, but seems unable to acknowledge it as a problem.
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Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters You Don’t Have to Like Julian Assange to Defend Him
The effort to extradite and prosecute the WikiLeaks founder threatens the free media.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A President Falsely Charging ‘Treason’ Is What the Founders Feared
Trump’s accusations violate his oath of office.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Fundamental Legitimacy of Donald Trump
The democracy-is-doomed crowd was wrong. Trump’s tyranny has never materialized.
