Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America’s college ...

Many of its citizens don’t mind giving the Americans another chance.

Bringing rich and poor together has major benefits.

“At least,” a friend sighed, “they didn’t call it the 2026 National War Strategy.” True enough, although if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims that he now leads the Department of War, logical ...

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

The terrorists are the ones without masks. They’re the ones yelling “No!” or “Stop!” or “Shame!” or blowing whistles.

The reason to be paranoid about platform censorship is always the same—whether it’s happening or not, it could happen. When ...

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One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be ...

President Trump warned Iran that it should negotiate a new nuclear deal or face possible U.S. military action, as an American ...

If we are not as safe from state violence as we thought we were, then the very foundations of the country seem shaky, and we may be witnessing a breakdown of the American idea. The United States was ...

Anthropic has positioned itself as the AI industry’s superego: the firm that speaks with the most authority about the big questions surrounding the technology, while rival companies develop ...