Foreign Policy
America has betrayed Afghan allies who fought beside me
When I served with the U.S. Army as a combat engineer in the remote city of Farah, Afghanistan, from 2004 to 2005, my fellow soldiers and I…
June 4, 2025
How the media downplayed Biden’s decline plus the brewing tariff battle between the U.S. and Europe and the UN’s ongoing ties to Hamas. Subscribe now.
Columnists
Giving parents cash can help children — but not always
Family policy is in the news these days, as both Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly keen on spending money and tweaking policies for the benefit of…
Magazine - Your Land
Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
No one will ever confuse Chicago with a well-run city. Perhaps things would be better if voters stopped voting for racists to be mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson…
Education
In praise of errors: ChatGPT is scrambling campus values
Making the rounds in April was a higher-ed post for our time: “The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, [and] earnest,…
Entertainment
(Post-)apocalyptic vengeance and justice in ‘The Last of Us’ Season Two
The blockbuster first season of HBO Max’s adaptation of The Last of Us features a high-stakes post-apocalyptic story arc that centers on the possibility of quite literally…
Infrastructure
The lovable heresies of Amazon’s electric pickup
“Nobody,” Tisha Johnson declared, in a careworn voice betraying three consecutive days of jet-lagged speech-giving, “wants a bunch of tech in their car.” Not exactly what you’d…
Magazine
The Twain we shall meet
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s finest writers, essayists, and humorists. His literary masterpieces, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The…
Entertainment
John Cena’s empty throne
John Cena walked into WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas with the polite shuffle of a man reporting for overtime. He walked out with the belt, the boos,…
Magazine
Unwinding the Gauguin myth
Sue Prideaux’s latest biography paints a vivid portrait of Paul Gauguin, the towering artist whose bright colors, flat planes, symbolism, and naked, dark-skinned Polynesian women paved the…
Congressional
Fuzzy Math: Several House districts could be redrawn before 2026 elections
It seems clear that House Democrats would need to net at least three seats in the 2026 midterm elections to win a majority in the chamber, which…