The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.
The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than ...
Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.
I n the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start ...
One minor but arresting fact of U.S. history is the huge amount of alcohol the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every ...
First published in The Atlantic on November 4, 2025.
Opinion

The Validation Machines

When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because ...
Deutschland rüstet auf, und Rheinmetall baut neue Werke in Unterlüß. Neue Arbeitsplätze entstehen, die Steuereinnahmen ...
Laut Angaben des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj hat Russland in der Nacht zu Samstag mit 450 Drohnen und 45 Raketen ...
Die Bayern verfehlen beim 2:2 in Berlin den Startrekord von Pep Guardiola? Stimmt. Aber die Geschichte des Spiels ist ein ...
Zwei angebliche Handwerker bieten einem Rentner in Neufahrn Reparaturarbeiten am Dach an. Der alte Mann fällt aber nicht ...