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Mathew Brady / Library of Congress A Matter of Facts
The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Defending Trump Is a Has-Been’s Best Hope
Dershowitz, Giuliani, Starr, and others relive their glory days by latching onto the president.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Disintegration of the American Presidency
The president’s job is to oversee the whole of the executive branch, but under Trump the inverse is happening.
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Bloomberg / Getty Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold.
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Jonno Rattman The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.
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David Ryder / Getty What Jeff Bezos’s Reported Phone Hack Says About Billionaires
Stunning new allegations about the relationship between the Amazon CEO and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia hint at just how connected the world’s most powerful people are.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP The Referees Have Taken Trump’s Side
If Mitch McConnell ran the Super Bowl, would the game even have to happen?
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
As senators embarked on their first day of proceedings, the occasional yawn and rubbing of the eyes emphasized the pointlessness of the whole affair.
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Don Cravens / The Life Images Collection / ... Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
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Print Collector / Getty / Farknot Architect / ... The Way We Write History Has Changed
A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
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Peter Macdiarmid / Somerset House / Getty Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World
Once upon a time, in the notorious start-up cradle, small was beautiful.
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Steve Heap / Shutterstock / Getty / The ... College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics
Political hobbyism is to public affairs what watching SportsCenter is to playing football.
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Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Protesters Finally Have (Some) Power
Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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Andy Clark / Reuters The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act
A case now before the Fifth Circuit threatens to upend the laws that enable Native self-governance.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Why Trump’s Lawyers Keep Attacking Adam Schiff
Instead of mounting a defense of their client, the president’s lawyers homed in on remarks delivered by the House Democrat back in September.
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John Taggart / Redux Harvey Weinstein’s Pain
As his criminal trial begins, the mogul seems to believe that the language of pain used by his accusers applies just as readily to himself.
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Annalise Pasztor / The Atlantic What a Billionaire Thinks Every Kid Should Know
And what a child thinks of that advice
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Thomas Mukoya / Reuters Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
Better technology means higher expectations, and higher expectations create more work.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Guns Are No Mere Symbol
Protesters gathered at the Virginia state capitol on Monday to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they did so in a way that took away the First Amendment rights of others.
