The Last-Minute Curveball for a Big FTC Ban
A judge blocked the FTC’s effort to ban noncompetes. But the federal agency wasn’t the only one with its eye on these agreements.
My Demoralizing but Not Surprising Cancellation
About an hour before my first book event, I heard from my publicist that the bookstore had “concerns” about my conversation partner, Rabbi Andy Bachman, because he was a “Zionist.”
The Electric Feeling of Summer Romance
Ruby Opalka’s “Spit,” a new short story in The Atlantic, captures the intensity of young love.
Inspectors General Are Doing Essential—And Unpopular—Work
In my years of government service, I saw again and again how they make agencies more accountable, efficient, and honest.
When Victimhood Takes a Bad-Faith Turn
Wronged explores how the practice of claiming harm has become the rhetorical province of the powerful.
AI Doomers Had Their Big Moment
Did they waste it?
Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse
The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed.
The Rights of American Slaves
The hidden history of how some enslaved people exercised legal rights
Is a New Palestinian Movement Being Born?
Chicago vividly illustrated the limits of one approach—and the potential of another.
The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump
The rage and shame of the anti-anti-Trumpers is getting worse.
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
No one alive has seen a race like this.
America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance
Like viruses, illicit and prescription drugs leave behind traces in the country’s wastewater systems.
Kamala Harris Is Rerunning Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign
But without the fumbles
What Trump Got Right About National Security
Despite occasional chaos in the White House, Trump administered long-overdue correctives to a number of unwise policies.
20-Somethings Are in Trouble
They’re more depressed, more anxious, and lonelier than any other age group in America—but their distress has gone widely unnoticed.
Young Men Have Invented a New Way to Defeat Themselves
Rawdogging is a search for purity that cannot be achieved.
Dear Therapist: My Relatives Don’t Believe My Parents Were Abusive
How do I maintain a relationship with my extended family without feeling so unheard?
The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump
Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration
Elon Musk to the Rescue
SpaceX will bring home two stranded astronauts, consolidating its position as America’s dominant space company.
21 Minutes in the Buttigieg Bubble
At the Democratic National Convention, the transportation secretary and his entourage moved fast.
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