The economy is in a terrible mess.

We seem to have forgotten more or less everything.

A low murder rate is by no means the only measure of a good society. But it’s a pretty good measure of a society’s underlying stability.

What exactly is conservatism in the Trump era?

A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.

Eleven lessons America must learn

Three reasons Trump is losing the war in Iran.

A filmmaker asks residents of the embattled island what they would say to the U.S. president.

A system of fuzzy borders, in which powerful states treat territory as negotiable and sovereignty as conditional, is not a viable alternative to the liberal world order.

An obsession with the most doomer prospects of A.I. is blinding progressives from thinking about serious, realistic policies.

Grades are going up and test scores are going down.

Three centuries late and not a moment too soon.

The document will address A.I. and its impact on humanity. He’s also staying the course on Catholic social teaching.

There’s no telling where this leads.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement has reshaped the public health debate. But if the coalition behind it begins to fracture, what comes next?

College education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.

The war has revealed the true puniness of Trump’s power

For this to happen, however, both men would need personality transplants.

One of the oldest and most durable features of human experience is re-emerging.

Does Xi Jinping see the world this way?

We are in a moment when we need to build and think to the future.

Two powerful forces in politics clash.

Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.

The language is benefiting from a respect for diversity.

The secrets of one of the architects of the religious right are being revealed. One of the secrets is that they weren’t really secrets.

An individual with principles and quirks and an aversion to being told what to do.

M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.

Measuring America’s democratic erosion.