Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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David Papazian / Getty Talk to Your Kids About Porn
Many teens will be exposed to it anyway—often unintentionally—and they need the guidance of their parents to process what they’ve seen.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men
Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Jeremy Corbyn’s Ironically Ahistorical Anti-Semitism
He accuses “Zionists” of lacking the very things that sustained Jews through the trials of their collective experience.
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Reuters / Ilya Naymushin Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Articles
A list of nonfiction journalism from 2017 that will stand the test of time.
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Reuters The Choice Facing a Declining United States
America can try to hold on to global hegemony as it slips from its grasp—or it can learn from Britain's mistakes.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters John McCain’s Final Letter to America
“We weaken our greatness … when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down; when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.”
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Brian Snyder / Reuters It Would Take Only a Single Senator
With Republicans clinging to a precarious 50–49 majority, every individual GOP senator can serve as a check on Trump’s excesses whenever they choose to act.
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Nancy Wiechec / Reuters The Call to Do Better
An imperfect leader, John McCain reveled in the struggle, and stood beside those who tried to improve the world.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Great-Heart Is Gone
Who will have the fortitude to pick up the torch from John McCain’s grasp?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Contempt for the Law Will Be His Downfall
The president can keep crying “witch hunt,” but it won’t stop the evidence against him from mounting.
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Stan Allen An Actually Magical Convention
At the heart of the appeal of magic is wonder—the joyful astonishment of childhood that we tend to forget as adults.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP The Death of Political Courage
Commitment to principle, despite its costs, is what America has lost with John McCain’s passing.
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Chris McGrath / Getty Crazy Rich Identities
In Singapore, the state is attempting to govern the ungovernable.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Greatest Disappointment of the Trump Presidency
The institutional fabric of the United States has proven more tenacious and resilient in responding than many feared. The Republican Congress has not.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How This Will End
Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump’s Peculiar Sympathy for White South Africans
Despite the many graver human-rights problems plaguing Africa, Trump has somehow seized upon one affecting white people.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters What I Learned by Studying Militarized Policing
It doesn’t make the police or public any safer. But figuring that out exposed the dearth of useable data on law-enforcement practices.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters ‘No Collusion—Rigged Witch Hunt!’ Is the New ‘I’m Not a Crook!’
President Trump is obsessed with the talking point, but it bears no more resemblance to reality than Richard Nixon’s best-remembered words.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Trump’s Troubles Are Just Getting Started
The conviction of his former campaign chair and the guilty plea of his former personal attorney will not be the end of the president’s legal difficulties.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Humanities Are in Crisis
Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
