I’m glad I had a gun. I’m even happier I didn’t use it on an intruder.
A lifelong gun owner, I often wondered what would happen if someone broke into my house. Then I found out.
By Fredrick KunkleHow Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails
Did tech titans have an option? I thought so.
By Kara SwisherAI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question
One university grapples with how to teach using large-language models.
By Molly RobertsA Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?
By Robert KaganAmerica doesn’t need more God. It needs more atheists.
Atheists know that people, not God, are responsible for making the world — and for solving its worst problems.
By Kate CohenPlay it again, Sam: Inside Bankman-Fried’s last year in the crypto game
FTX founder Bankman-Fried is the subject of Michael Lewis’s new book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”
By Michael LewisI left the church — and now long for a ‘church for the nones’
My upbringing makes me particularly inclined to see a church-size hole in American life.
By Perry Bacon Jr.He was an undocumented immigrant. He became ‘Your Excellency.’
A once-undocumented Salvadoran rises to the top of the Catholic Church in Washington.
By Karen TumultyMen are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
No one's offering men a model except the right. It's time for a new plan.
By Christine EmbaHere’s the inside story of how Congress failed to rein in Big Tech
How broken is Congress? Its failure to rein in Big Tech is a portrait of lawmakers' fear and dysfunction.
By Steven PearlsteinTo his final days, my father always knew how to pull off the landing
Like so many sons, I’ve spent long stretches of my life trying to reassemble the life of a man who both awed and scared me for almost as long as I knew him.
By Paul HendricksonI lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions.
Ozempic’s just part of a new arsenal of medications being used to treat obesity.
By Ruth MarcusMy neighbor lived to be 109. This is what I learned from him.
Charlie White’s life spanned nearly half the history of the United States. In his story are lessons for anyone living through a maelstrom of change.
By David Von DrehleThese radically simple changes helped lawmakers actually get things done
Want to make Congress more effective? Start by moving the furniture.
By Amanda RipleyThe America trap: Why our enemies often underestimate us
In the 1930s, Germany and Japan bet against the United States going to war. They miscalculated.
By Robert KaganBiden needs allies to keep China and Russia in check. Here’s how to do it.
Like his predecessors during the Cold War, Biden must deploy free trade as a weapon for isolating enemies and cementing friendship.
By Sebastian MallabyOriginalism is bunk. Liberal lawyers shouldn’t fall for it.
The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.
By Ruth MarcusHow the pandemic ended America’s bad romance with work
It took a massive, deadly pandemic for Americans to step back from our all-in attitude toward work and remember: We don't have to live this way.
By Helaine OlenThe tragedy of John Roberts
As the chief justice begins his 18th term, he is at times an isolated and even tragic figure.
By Ruth MarcusThe Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger
Bob Woodward opens his notebook, releasing his 20 interviews with Donald Trump for the public archive.
By Bob Woodward