Fault Lines
What Gavin Newsom’s Embarrassing Podcast Suggests About the Democratic Party
There’s a new strategy of disavowal emerging among some progressive politicians—and it is destined to fail.
The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault on Free Speech
Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly un-American—and possibly unpopular, too.
Can Americans Still Be Convinced That Principle Is Worth Fighting For?
The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine.
What Will Democratic Resistance Look Like?
Amid the internal crisis of the Democratic Party, historical precedents can both inform and obscure our understanding of how the left might regroup.
A Profoundly Empathetic Book on Homelessness in the Bay Area
Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to offer a powerful reminder of the moral side of the crisis.
Stephen A. Smith for President
If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?
America’s Soft-Power Retreat
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s gutting of U.S.A.I.D. will weaken Washington’s reach, but the U.S. was already losing the fight for global influence.
What’s the Point of Trump’s War on D.E.I.?
To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.
The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics
Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.
The Victims of the L.A. Fires Have Nowhere to Turn
In the age of social media, every politician who has to stand in front of a camera after a tragedy turns into just another battle site in an endless culture war.