California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite, writes Svetlana Jitomirskaya, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley. | Continue reading
Since October 7, some have described the Jewish community as in turmoil. Rabbi Joanna Samuels says it’s more tight-knit than ever. | Continue reading
Today in TGIF: Karmelo Anthony trial reactions, college costs cross six figures, the vice president owns birds, Rosie O’Donnell looks amazing, We the Economists make an announcement, and more! | Continue reading
The “Roastmaster General” breaks down the art of the insult. | Continue reading
How America’s founder mentality built both its economy and its arsenal | Continue reading
After hearing about our podcast, the acclaimed playwright sent Joe Nocera a letter outlining his own theory of the crime—one that puts Charles Lindbergh at the center of the mystery. | Continue reading
She made herself a formidable justice in the same way she had learned to brand calves, fire a rifle, or turn a bobcat into a house pet while growing up on her parents’ remote Arizona ranch. | Continue reading
Christianity is all over social media. For a while, I thought my generation might be finding God, writes Freya India. Now I worry we are just finding content about God. | Continue reading
When I was a teenager, the end of school meant it was time to get to work. Summers spent busing tables was more transformative than a trip to Europe, writes Larissa Phillips. | Continue reading
A millennial mom has seen a 5-year-old ‘punch, kick, and push my son’ at preschool. ‘What’s hardest for me is what this experience is doing to my worldview,’ she writes. Our advice columnist responds. | Continue reading
What’s the real story at Florida’s New College? Walter Isaacson on America’s founding. Making drugs in space. How to save the New York Philharmonic. And more. | Continue reading
On “Old School with Shilo Brooks,” Walter Isaacson discusses the sentence that created America, and the arguments that shaped the Declaration of Independence. | Continue reading
Trita Parsi often says on TV and podcasts that the Iran war is a quagmire. The Trump administration might try to deport him, writes Jay Solomon. | Continue reading
New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college, writes Jonas Du. | Continue reading
The New York Philharmonic has spent years chasing politics and prestige. The celebrated conductor will bring back the one thing that matters: music. | Continue reading
The man who wrote ‘God Bless America’ loved his adoptive home in the way only an immigrant could. Years later, his words of gratitude echo into eternity. | Continue reading
Drugs. Fiberoptic cables. Data centers. Thanks to SpaceX, it’s a boon time for manufacturing goods in space. | Continue reading
The passengers of Flight 93 didn’t just act with courage—they gathered information, discussed, and voted before charging the cockpit. Their example leaves the rest of us very little room for excuses. | Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago this week, and his finest feat was to so perfectly inhabit our collective voice, writes Jonathan Horn. | Continue reading
Graham Platner's ex-girlfriend speaks out. Niall Ferguson and Haviv Rettig Gur on the Iran war. Confessions of a former Taliban recruiter. Will the Iran war last two weeks or 20 years? What’s wrong with ‘Love Island’ fans? And more in today's Front Page. | Continue reading
Lyndsey Fifield told ‘The New York Times’ Graham Platner emotionally abused her and became physical multiple times. So why is she under attack? Frannie Block and Audrey Fahlberg report. | Continue reading
The Iranian regime’s ideology compels it to keep fighting. No deal, no ceasefire, and no American administration changes that, writes Haviv Rettig Gur. | Continue reading
Mexico has never fully unified over nearly two centuries, and it resists the pull of the U.S. That allows violence, poverty, and cultural variety, writes Tyler Cowen. | Continue reading
To the Americans who spent their childhoods racing through the wet grass of suburban soccer fields—and who eventually traded soccer for something else: This summer, come back to the beautiful game, writes Jillian Lederman. | Continue reading
The U.S. public is fed up with the war. Can America actually get a good deal, or is it already too entangled to leave? | Continue reading
Mubin Shaikh grew up in Toronto, in a devout Muslim family, caught between two worlds he couldn’t reconcile. | Continue reading
The contestants are young, dumb, and unbelievably hot. Yet spectators demand that none of them ever, ever made a teenage mistake on the internet, writes Kara Kennedy. | Continue reading
The regime may be weaker than it has been in decades, but it remains dangerous. Can the U.S. and Israel stop it? | Continue reading
In her latest This Week in Canada newsletter, Rupa Subramanya writes that demographic and ideological shifts have enabled anti-Israel activism to spread faster, acquire moral legitimacy, and blur into hostility. Also, Ask Me Anything about medical assistance in dying. | Continue reading
Arthur Brooks on Graham Platner and candidates who behave badly. Peter Savodnik on how California elections sow mistrust. Colin Quinn on Martin Scorsese. And more. | Continue reading
Through ‘Persepolis,’ Marjane Satrapi shattered Western myths about life under the Islamic Republic. She died Thursday at 56, but the story she forced the world to confront endures, writes Masih Alinejad. | Continue reading
After an accusation of wrongdoing and a late-night email from a school dean, Vaibhav Duggal died by suicide. Is the school responsible? Frannie Block reports. | Continue reading
The slow count of votes in Los Angeles led to Spencer Pratt’s defeat and allegations of a stolen election. There’s no evidence of impropriety, but the state’s slow counting is a recipe for mistrust. | Continue reading
Trump is suddenly looking to restrain allies like Israel while accommodating Iran. It’s an approach that could end in disaster, writes Aaron MacLean. | Continue reading
Every stoop and fire hydrant Martin Scorsese’s camera catches is a love poem to New York City, writes Colin Quinn. He should know better than to make movies about anywhere else. | Continue reading
There is only one nation on Earth that must continually argue for its right to exist, even when the very survival of its people is threatened by avowedly genocidal enemies, writes Sam Harris. | Continue reading
Allegations surrounding politicians like Graham Platner raise a question: Does sexual misconduct predict how candidates will behave in office? Unfortunately for us, the answer is yes, writes Arthur Brooks. | Continue reading
Why we can’t quit the Kennedys. John McWhorter on what followed wokeness. And more. | Continue reading
Coleman Hughes sits down with one of the most clear-eyed thinkers on race in America to ask whether the cultural moment of the last decade is finally behind us, and what comes next. | Continue reading
The former First Lady’s new memoir is being criticized by journalists, ex-aides, and Democratic operatives—the same people who pretended her husband was fit for office, writes Caitlin Flanagan. | Continue reading
In today's Weekend Press: The machine making people human again. Mike Pence remembers what conservatism used to be. Joe Nocera on the suffering of Rafael Nadal. Two Drinks with the mom who asked Trump to pay for childcare. And more! | Continue reading
‘Rafa,’ the new Netflix documentary about Rafael Nadal, isn’t just about why the great tennis player was willing to endure so much but whether it was worth it in the end, writes Joe Nocera. | Continue reading
ALS patients slowly lose their voices. Neuralink, a medical start-up owned by Elon Musk, can restore them, reports Maya Sulkin. | Continue reading
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Suzy Weiss on why Heidi Montag is already LA’s First Lady. Plus: Joanna Stern tells Suzy about dating an AI chatbot. | Continue reading
Reshma Saujani went viral for asking Donald Trump how he was going to make childcare cheaper. ‘In this country, we love girls, but we hate women,’ she says while drinking margaritas with Kara Kennedy. | Continue reading
Feminists think the horror film 'Obsession' is about the toxicity of the Nice Guy; the manosphere argues that it proves women are crazy. But it’s much deeper and better than that, argues Kat Rosenfield. | Continue reading
Republicans are reshaping conservatism in Donald Trump's image—and not always in positive ways. Barry Goldwater’s ‘The Conscience of a Conservative’ offers a needed corrective, writes Mike Pence. | Continue reading