60 Senate Seats: How the Democrats Would Govern if They Could | Opinion
This point in campaigns is about maximizing support, not holding policy discussions.
Kamala Harris Needs to Win Over Hearts More Than Minds | Opinion
As Democrats gather in Chicago, the most remarkable of the storylines is going strangely unremarked: America in 2024 might finally elect a woman president.
Seeds of Today's Middle East Disaster Were Sown by the CIA | Opinion
Seventy-one years ago, a pair of energetic brothers carried out a plan to overthrow a pesky Middle Eastern government, setting in motion a chain of events that has the region on the cusp of all-out war.
Netanyahu Is Paying in Others' Blood to Buy Himself More Time | Opinion
Ten months after the Oct. 7 massacre which sparked a devastating war in Gaza, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of an even wider conflict.
Kamala Harris Should Pick a Team, Not Just a Vice President | Opinion
Imagine if alongside the pick for veep, Harris also unveiled a comprehensive future Cabinet that included both the veep and many of the contenders
Biden's Supreme Court Reforms Are Overdue | Opinion
President Joe Biden's proposals for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court are not just completely reasonable—they're also desperately needed and even rather mild.
Is True Art Dead in the Era of Algorithms and AI? | Opinion
Algorithms, free distribution, and generative AI have made the artist's life more complicated than ever.
Our Republic at the Breaking Point | Opinion
The problems bedeviling the Republic go far beyond quotidian events, and have more to do with the distortions, dysfunction and paralysis.
Today's Colonialist Narrative Is Racist—and Clueless | Opinion
This movement sees Western Civilization as a conspiracy by people who are "white" against those who are "of color"
What Elections in France and Britain Have in Common With the U.S. | Opinion
This week marked the first in modern history when Britain and France both held national elections that overlapped.
Biden Is Not Irreplaceable. Trump Must Be Defeated
After a debate performance that seemed to confirm suspicions of mental non-acuity, everyone's talking about whether Joe Biden drop out of the presidential race.
How Will the Progressives' Reign of Terror End?
In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate advocate for the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
Gaza Could Escalate Catastrophically—or Provide a Pivot to a Better World
The bizarre origin story of World War I shows how seemingly local events can spin out of control—and Israel is now at the center of a maelstrom that has real potential to do the same.
The World Is Looking for Change but Biden Still Has a Chance
Voters all over sure seem to be unhappy in our 2024 "year of democracy," when over half the world's population is invited to one form or another of suffrage.
Can a Tax Slow AI From Taking Your Job?
What will happen to most of our jobs when artificial intelligence and robots can do them better and cheaper and with fewer complications for management?
South Africa Takes an Uncertain Step Forward
It has been noted with fanfare that more people are eligible to vote in 2024—over 4 billion—than ever before.
Why Is Labour Way Ahead in Britain? The Democrats May Want to Inquire
Almost all Britains agree that the Conservatives will be crushed in the vote set for July 4.
Ukraine May Soon Have to Sue for Peace
While the war with Russia has enabled a quiet extension of Volodymyr Zelensky's term, it is a fitting moment to take stock of a catastrophe that has been overshadowed by the Gaza war.
A (Imaginary) Heartfelt Speech From President Biden to the Israelis
President Joe Biden needs the Gaza war to end. It is shattering the Democratic coalition, which requires both Jewish and Muslim voters, and both progressives and moderates, to flock to the polls.
Are the Youth Out of Control—or the Old Out of Touch?
Many older Americans have watched with amazement and horror as pro-Palestine protests gathered steam on college campuses, veering toward support for Islamist terrorists and even hatred of America itself.
Lessons of Saigon Nearly 50 Years Later: Beware the 'Idee Fixe'
The idee fixe can infect policymakers as well—and in the case of Vietnam, it was the "Domino Theory."
Immigration Fears on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The malaise in the UK is severe enough to have created a sort-of political Halley's Comet: near-universal acceptance that the opposition will win the election that must be held by the end of the year.
Israel Has Better Things to Do Than Just Strike Iran Back
In the wake of Iran's brazen and unprecedented drone and missile attacks, Israel finds itself at a critical juncture where its response could shape Middle East dynamics and complicate world affairs for years to come.
Is the Last 'Larry David Moment' the End of Humor?
Considering that the world went mad about halfway through the run—snowflakes to the left of me, MAGA to the right—it is a wonder Larry David managed to survive.
The News Media Has Helped Normalize Hamas
We have failed to tell the story of a jihadi outfit considered a terrorist group by the United States with excellent reason.
AI Is One Tweak Away From Ending Careers
This inability to trust the results of AI queries has been at the center of several panel discussions I've been on about AI and journalism.
The Best Way to End Hamas Requires a Ceasefire First
It is disgraceful that so many people around the world—from U.S. academics to useless leaders in some Arab countries, all the way to sanctimonious Western journalists – continue to abet the fiction that Hamas fights for the Palestinians.
Potemkin Suffrage: The Media Should Call Out Fake Elections
All over Russia this past weekend, subjects of Forever-President Vladimir Putin travelled to places called polling stations where they went through motions that looked a lot like voting.
The Tyranny of the Early Riser
The assumption that mornings equal industry is so widespread that it can only be the result of an international conspiracy: the Tyranny of the Early Riser.
History Hands Alexei Navalny's Widow a Leading Role
The 47-year-old economist, Yulia Navalnaya pledges to take up the mantle of her husband.