Moscow Can’t Stop the Music
The Kremlin is trying to suppress songs that defy Putin’s rule. It isn’t working.
It’s Not Just Netflix—It’s Your Entire Life
The streaming service is expanding beyond screens and into the real world. Will subscribers follow?
Is Trump’s TV Lying to Him?
If it is, then everything falls apart.
Trump’s Grand Plan for a Government Shutdown
The Trump administration might use a shutdown to finish the job that DOGE started.
The Judaism I Thought I Knew
“I’m just a cultural Jew,” I would tell people, knowing nothing about Jewish culture.
The Real Reason to Recognize Palestine
Absolutists have attempted to kill the two-state solution for years. The international community just called their bluff.
The Myth of the Campus Snowflake
The students I encounter as a university president aren’t afraid of free speech—quite the contrary.
Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance Is Already Backfiring
As the president knows too well, efforts to censor or convict foes can often make them more popular.
Why Does Hegseth Want More Than 800 Admirals and Generals in the Same Room?
Few things are important enough to justify the security risk of putting all of these people in the same place.
The Machines Finding Life That Humans Can’t See
A suite of technologies are helping taxonomists speed up species identification.
Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.
The Blue State That’s Now a Bellwether
New Jersey is no one’s idea of a swing state. Or is it?
Illiberal America, MAGA Edition
Republicans had real grievances with progressive orthodoxy—and are using them to justify drastic reprisals.
Syncretism
A poem
Diseducators
A short story
The Race to Save America’s Democracy
Trump’s administration may seem chaotic, but Americans should not take the integrity of next year’s elections for granted.
Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock
When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.
ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father
My own private Frankenstein
A Deceptively Peaceful Coming-of-Age Movie
Culture and entertainment musts from Quinta Jurecic
What Teen Novels Are Capable Of
These books can help young people come to terms with the thoughts that feel too scary to say out loud.