Trump's War on the Press

A MONTH BEFORE last November’s presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that was edited to make her response to a question about Israel “more succinct,” as the show’s producers put it.

Rise of the Samurai Lawyers

HOW A STABLE AND RELATIVELY JUST LEGAL ORDER EMERGED IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUTS WOLVES IN YOUR BACKYARD

ENDANGERED RED WOLVES BECAME A SYMBOL OF FEDERAL OVERREACH-AND A TARGET FOR LOCAL IRE-IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

Their Kids Said They Were Trans.Then CPS Came Knocking.

ACROSS THE COUNTRY, PARENTS OF GENDER-DYSPHORIC KIDS ARE CONFRONTING STATE INTRUSION.

The American Right Is Abandoning Mises

THE AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST’S PRINCIPLED THOUGHT ONCE SERVED AS A CHECK ON THE INTELLECTUAL RIGHT.

Bridget Jones Never Gets Old

How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics

ALL THE KING'S CENSORS

When bureaucrats ruled over British theater

When Robert Frost Was Bad

Before he became America's most famous poet, he wrote some real howlers.

"I Am Still Mad to Write"

How a tragic accident helped Hanif Kureishi find his rebellious voice again

The Moron Factory

April 20: Sometimes feel life stinks, everything bad/getting worse, everyone doomed.

WHY THE COVID DENIERS WON

Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath

The Warrior's Anti-War Novel

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque invented modern war writing.

CAN EUROPE STOP ELON MUSK?

He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.

Stuck In Place

Why Americans stopped moving houses-and why that's a very big problem

Who's Your Mommy?

I knew that becoming a parent would change me. I just didn't know how.

BEHOLD MY SUIT!

A LIFETIME OF FASHION MISERY COMES TO AN END.

The Experimentalist

Ali Smith's novels scramble plotlines, upend characters, and flout chronologywhile telling propulsively readable stories.

CAPITULATION IS CONTAGIOUS

By killing a cartoon that lampooned its owner, The Washington Post set a dangerous precedent.

THE PLOT AGAINST BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

It's time to take the rhetoric about \"anchor babies\" seriously.

WILL CONGRESS EVER "LIBERATE" METHADONE?

Drug user activists are teaming up with doctors and legislators to upend a degrading clinic system.

THE HIT LIST

Trump wants to remake America. These are the people who will suffer.

LOSING THE FARM

How RFK Jr's healthy-foods movement swallowed up some of the Democratic base

POWER OF THE PURSE

There's never been an administration this rich. History says it won't end well.

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

CIVIL WAR

The legal industry's monopoly on advice ensures only the rich can afford a lawyer. Now, an unlikely coalition is fighting to change that-—and it might just succeed.

PRISON BREAK

There are many programs trying to reduce recidivism. This one works.

POET OF THE PEOPLE

aja monet is reviving the Black Arts Movement's tradition of pairing poetry with live music-and drawing Gen Z to her shows.

VIRTUOUS CYCLE

The big money push to tell women to bring back \"natural\" birth control

ENTITLEMENTS

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE reboots austerity for the era of Big Tech.

THE PAW PATROL PRINCIPLE

How a toy company built a children's-television juggernaut