The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism
Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.
Ideas
The Real Motive Behind the Real ID–Deadline Charade
The Trump administration turned a legitimate national-security priority into an empty threat against immigrants.
A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs
The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
Endowments Are Next
Taxing endowments is likely to weaken elite institutions, not fix them. That’s the point.
Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
How to Prepare for the Trumpcession
I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m stocking up on ibuprofen.
The Destruction of the Department of Justice
When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.
Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations
Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.