Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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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.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Michael Flynn Is Worse Than a Liar
The word lie has lost its power in the Trump era. Try replacing it with fraud.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters What the Yemen Vote Reveals About the Democratic Party
It’s finally moving left on foreign policy.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency
It won’t be a single news event that takes down the president.
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Lauren Victoria Burke / AP I Served in Congress Longer Than Anyone. Here’s How to Fix It.
Abolish the Senate and publicly fund elections.
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Jim Young / Reuters Sadism in the St. Louis Police Department
Three cops who expressed an eagerness to brutalize protesters unintentionally targeted the one person likely to get them arrested.
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Bob Daugherty / AP American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence
George H. W. Bush’s restraint was remarkable, and worth imitating.
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Dennis Cook / AP A Forgotten Legacy of George H. W. Bush
He was an architect of one of the most important environmental achievements of the past three decades.
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Handout / Reuters Why George H. W. Bush Struggled to Connect With America
The modern presidency has often been judged by how well the president speaks to the American people. Still, Bush seemed uncomfortable with the kind of communication required of the nation’s executive.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Did Trump Advise Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress?
The president’s former lawyer didn’t stand to gain from giving false testimony.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters George H. W. Bush Was Decent Even to Rivals Like Me
His “kinder, gentler” personality did not fit comfortably into the Republican Party of the Newt Gingrich era.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Conscience of a Conservative
It should not fall to the only black Republican senator to block a man who spent his career seeking to disenfranchise minority voters from being appointed to the federal bench.
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Lisa Poole / AP What’s Really Happening to Retail?
Manhattan’s shuttered storefronts tell a larger American story: Only Amazon-proof businesses can now survive in brick and mortar.
