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Why a Pro-Trump Conservative Might Win the New York Governor’s Race

The Season of Dark Academia

Mental Health in America Today

My Teenage Years With the Black Panthers

Classical Music Still Plays in the Theater of War

Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem

Don’t Buy the Republican Appeal to Workers

Where My Climate Doubts Began to Melt

It’s Still the Roberts Court. And That’s a Good Thing.

‘Maybe Gen Z Is Just Kinder’: How America’s Youngest Voters are Shaping Politics

What My Father’s Death Taught Me About Living

An Ode to the New York Subway

These 15 Florida Voters Think Ron DeSantis is Going Places, Like It or Not

I’m a Pro-Life Pastor but I Support a Woman’s Right To Choose

In Praise of the Humble Rule of Thumb

Why OPEC Is Cutting Oil Production (and Why There’s Not Much the U.S. Can Do About It)

Kari Ann Lake’s Hijacking of Martin Luther King

From Elite Private Schools to Elite Colleges

Notes on the Condition of Liberalism

Britain Is a Global Laughingstock, and It’s Not Just Liz Truss’s Fault

What the World Will Lose if Ancient Trees Die Out

Politician, Thy Name Is Hypocrite

Unseparate and Unequal

A New Playbook for Saving Democracy

Why You’d Be Foolish to Count Herschel Walker Out

Wait, Who Did You Say Is Middle-Aged?

Same-Sex Marriage Is a Religious Freedom

Donald Trump Has Already Told Americans Exactly Who He Is

Alex Jones Picked on the Wrong People

The Jan. 6 Committee Has Been Almost Wholly Ineffective

Why Men and Boys Are Struggling

Haiti Has Been a Plaything of Powerful Forces for Too Long

Putin Is Trying to Terrorize Ukrainians, but We Know He’s Losing

Who Should Your ‘Work Self’ Be?

Pig Farming Doesn’t Have to Be This Cruel

The Exploitive Anti-Blackness of Kanye West

Mismanagement and ‘Monster Trains’ Have Wrecked American Rail

The Power of Joe Biden’s Anti-Charisma

Annie Ernaux Understands That the Past Is Never Simple

Donald and Herschel: The Unholy Alliance

Here’s Hoping Elon Musk Destroys Twitter

The Triumph of the Ukrainian Idea

Tracking the Coming Economic Storm

Putin and M.B.S. Are Laughing at Us

Appraising the Supreme Court as a New Term Begins

Why Parents Feel Like ‘Butter That Has Been Scraped Over Too Much Bread’

Pony Boys

America Has a Ginni Thomas Problem

Why the Music of Rich Mullins Endures, 25 Years After His Death

I Make Video Games. I Won’t Let My Daughters Play Them.

My First Yom Kippur in Exile