What Won’t Congress Let Trump Get Away With?
The president’s Caribbean boat strikes are setting a dangerous new precedent.
Ideas
Feeling Desolate? There Is a Cure for That.
Everyone sooner or later faces a dark night of the soul. Don’t hide from yours; learn from it.
Kathryn Bigelow’s Warning to America
The threat of apocalypse never ended. We just chose to forget about it.
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit
People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.
I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia
What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future
The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda
A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
The Lesson of 1929
Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.
I Don’t Want to Stop Believing in America’s Decency
I want to feel, as Walt Whitman did, that America and democracy are inextricable.
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.