Opinion

A Confederacy of Toddlers

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.
First published in The Atlantic on November 4, 2025.
One minor but arresting fact of U.S. history is the huge amount of alcohol the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every ...
First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.
The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than ...
Opinion

The Validation Machines

When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because ...
I n the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start ...
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has said that he lives “rent-free” in Donald Trump’s head. He also lives part-time in the official governor’s mansion in Springfield.
US-Wahlen: So unterschiedlich die Demokraten sind - sie haben offenbar eine gemeinsame Strategie gegen den autoritären Trump ...
Sie haben freche Farben und liegen gut in der Hand: Einweg-E-Zigaretten sind besonders unter jungen Leuten beliebt. Doch was ...
Die AfD sei längst das „Sprachrohr Moskaus“, kritisiert CSU-Generalsekretär Huber. Auch CDU-Außenpolitiker Kiesewetter ...