by Noah Feldman The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can’t confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The […]
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Has Ukraine war reached a stalemate?
by Daniel DePetris Last August, more than two months after Ukraine began its counteroffensive against Russian positions in the east, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan was asked about whether […]
How did Silicon Valley fall from idealism to ruthless exploitation?
by LZ Granderson Adam Bowen and James Monsees — the focus of the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” — originally set out to make the […]
Science could finally discover aliens. What does that mean?
by Adam Frank Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or […]
School board elections could make (or break) our democracy
by Julie Marsh, Pedro Noguera and Miguel Casar Rodriguez School boards across America are under attack. We have all seen the disruptions at school board meetings triggered by clashes over […]
Crooked lawyers were crucial to Trump’s plot. Reform the profession
by Margaret Tarkington Over the last few weeks, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, three lawyers central to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in […]
New poll exposes flaw in Trump opponents’ plan
by Byron York The headline from a new Des Moines Register-NBC News poll of Iowa is that former President Donald Trump still has a big lead in the Republican race. […]
Fates of Israel, Palestinians are inextricably bound together
by Daniel Bral War and conflict are almost invariably zero-sum games. What makes war so unforgiving, even oddly unifying, is that there is a shared experience of irreparable pain, loss, […]
We treat mass shootings like natural disasters
by Peter Hanink America witnessed yet another mass shooting on Wednesday, Oct. 25, this time in the small city of Lewiston, Maine. While people were shocked by the scale and […]
Will media get coverage of the crisis in Israel and Gaza right? It depends on the editors
by Jonah Goldberg If you ask most people, including most journalists, what the job of the press is, they will reasonably respond with a number of high-minded cliches: “report the […]
