The Pentagon Has Axed Its Office of the Arctic
President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet have made a case for acquiring Greenland that’s so simple, even self-evident,...
Trump’s Slippery Definition of ‘Patriots’ and ‘Terrorists’
On January 6, Donald Trump’s administration published an apologia for the Trump supporters whom he incited to storm the Capitol...
How Donald Trump Broke With His Own Foreign Policy
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The Early Days of American Imperialism
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I’m Not From the Government but I’m Here to Help
Photographs by Jason Andrew People look at you differently when you carry a Geiger counter. Or, at least, when you...
The Smear Machine
There’s a lot we don’t know about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed yesterday by federal immigration...
In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care
Every few weeks I turn up in a hospital gown at a medical exam room in Massachusetts and describe a...
What the Second Law of Thermodynamics Reveals About Being Human
Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one...
How Complaining to Friends Became Controversial
A boogeyman haunts the realm of friendship advice: the friend who vents too much. Although people have surely been complaining...
A High-Seas Gambit Humiliates Putin
Over the past two weeks, Russian authorities tried hard to protect an oil tanker that the Americans wanted to seize....
Sometimes Athletes Just Get Lucky
Chief among the burdens weighing upon the weary sports parent—worse than the endless commutes, the exorbitant fees, the obnoxious parents...
Nostalgia for American Hypocrisy
Two decades ago, Richard N. Haass, a senior foreign-policy official in the George W. Bush administration, confessed that he would...
‘Aren’t We Supposed to Be the Good Guys Here?’
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Democratic Senator Mark Kelly is fluent in...
Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on NASA’s Science Missions
Photographs by Christopher Payne On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone...
Deadly Force on a Frozen Street
Aidan Perzana woke up to honking vehicles and looked out his window just as ICE officers surrounded an SUV. The...
