There Was One Dick Cheney All Along
The end of the former vice president’s career reflected its beginnings.
Ideas
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
The Solution to the Third-Term Threat
Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.
The Next Era of the American University
Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close.
White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
Israel’s Critics Have Canceled Themselves
Withholding submissions from The New York Times in order to promote your views is some odd logic.
Don’t Blow This, Baseball
The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly back—just in time for its next crisis.
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
Why You Should Keep an Open Mind on the Divine
There are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in a purely materialist philosophy.
A Post-Literate Age
Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.