Binyamin Appelbaum

Mamdani Isn’t the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.

The Democratic Party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Pennsylvania’s governor.

William A. Birdthistle

Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again.

Donald Trump’s recent Gatsby party encapsulates this moment of economic peril.

The Ezra Klein Show

What Were Democrats Thinking?

This is how the shutdown ends?

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David French

Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

Mitchell Duneier

Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative

He had a good factory job that helped him raise a family. But it didn’t save him from despair.

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Advance G.O.P. Plan to End Shutdown

Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.

She’s a Millennial Baroness, but There’s More to Her Story

Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg built a social media following by talking about her family’s history — both good and bad. Now she’s ready to talk about the rest of her life.

Sylvia Plath Was Reading This Novel Before She Died. It’s Brilliant.

Now unjustly overlooked, “The Ha-Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.

Glass Skin and Snail Mucin: South Korea’s Journey to Global Beauty Power

Propelled by interest in all things South Korea, Amorepacific, the cosmetics giant, is expanding its reach into the United States. But so are many of its competitors.

A MAGA Senator Promised Hope for a Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In.

The town’s unionized workers wanted to believe that there was something better than what private equity owners had offered.

A Syrian Village and the Long Road to the White House

In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.

The Village Where Draft-Age Men Have Mostly Vanished

Ukraine faces a major draft-evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.