When a government totters
Michael Varga In the middle of an exam, my Chadian students suddenly stood up and fled my classroom. A minute before, they had seen through the glassless window... Read more.
You don’t need a degree to understand climate change, just an insurance policy
Carly Fabian You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance... Read more.
Population decline isn’t the problem. Hungry kids are.
F.D. Flam Humanity is about to turn a major population corner, according to a new estimate. A recent article in The Lancet predicts that by 2030, we’ll no longer... Read more.
Heat waves are deadlier than hurricanes. Make them ‘disasters.’
Mark Gongloff Unlike other natural disasters, extreme heat doesn’t topple buildings, flood streets or turn road signs into missiles. It doesn’t provide a dramatic... Read more.
Mifepristone ruling sends a message about abortion politics
Noah Feldman On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected lower courts’ outrageous attempts to block access to the abortion medication mifepristone.... Read more.
Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
F. Willis Johnson In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District... Read more.
What will happen to generative AI after November’s election?
Mohammad Hosseini We’ve seen it play out time and again. Industries that lack sufficient government oversight prioritize short-term profits over long-term sustainability... Read more.
We need the humanities today more than ever
Sara Pankenier Weld How can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold? This is a question posed by a prisoner in “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,”... Read more.
The next wave’s amendments: Which ones will make it to ratification?
Rick LaRue The next wave of constitutional amendments is more than a few years out, but it will arrive sooner than we think (We are late in the gap between such... Read more.
Should the US increase its nuclear arsenal?
Daniel DePetris Is it time for the United States to increase its nuclear weapons stockpile? To arms-control advocates, this is a dastardly, irresponsible question.... Read more.