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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Would Change Your Mind About President Trump?
An exercise for his supporters and critics.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump's False Bragging About His Charitable Giving
Once again, the president-elect is trying to mislead the public about his philanthropy.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Obama's Weak Defense of His Record on Drone Killings
His choices made unjust strikes predictable and inevitable—and with Donald Trump poised to take power, the precedents he set are all the more alarming.
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Morry Gash / AP A Wisconsin Legislator Models Political Correctness for Students
Instead of selectively attacking views they find objectionable, students, administrations, and elected officials could try defending the principle of free speech.
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters The Limits of Diversity
At what point would you start to express a strong preference for sameness?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Misplaced Fear of ‘Normalization'
The battle over norms is lost—but thankfully, the battle over outcomes remains.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How Trump's Murky Foreign Business Interests Harm America
Congress can't tell whether the president-elect is pursuing the good of his country, or augmenting the wealth of his family.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Case for Bringing Back Torture Is a Ticking Time-Bomb
A former CIA interrogator who terrorized prisoners hasn’t learned the lessons of his own immoral behavior.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Donald Trump, Master of the Pseudo-Event
The president-elect is a pro at marshaling ambiguous unrealities to his advantage.
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Reuters What Will It Take to Convict a Police Officer for Shooting an Unarmed Man?
In two high-profile trials—those of Officers Michael Slager and Ray Tensing—juries declined to hold cops accountable for taking the lives of civilians.
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Reuters How Stigma Sows Seeds of Its Own Defeat
Defending the liberal project is a Sisyphean task in part because successfully inculcating liberal norms leads to habits that weaken the ability to sustain them.
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Susan Walsh / AP Too Much Stigma, Not Enough Persuasion
The conflict over a liberal blogger’s criticism of the use of the term “white supremacy” provides a case study in how not to win friends and influence people.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Congress Is Duty-Bound to Probe Trump's Finances
Republicans who fretted over the Clinton Foundation cannot coherently oppose efforts to investigate the billionaire’s foreign conflicts of interest.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Understudied Female Sexual Predator
According to new research, sexual victimization by women is more common than gender stereotypes would suggest.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters A Trump Presidency: Bracing for the Unknown
Americans have no choice but to hope for the best from the president-elect—and to prepare for the worst by reviving the constitutional system’s checks and balances.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why I Insist on Voting for Hillary Clinton
A civic duty to stop Donald Trump requires that I support a candidate I could’ve never imagined backing.
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Reuters / National Park Service The Urgency of the Lesser Evil
On the ground in Arizona with voters who don’t fully realize how much this election will affect their lives and the politics of their country
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters There's Simply No Comparison Between Clinton's Flaws and Trump's
The Democratic nominee’s shortcomings should not blind voters to the catastrophe they’d invite by electing her cruel, undisciplined, erratic opponent.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Future of Privacy Is Plausible Deniability
In a hackable world where neither the NSA nor Sony Pictures nor John Podesta could safeguard their private communications, the surest way to keep data secure may be surrounding it with decoys.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Nasty Rise and Fall of Donald Trump
With the candidate flailing in the polls, some on the right are wondering if a better version of the man wouldn’t be winning. But that kinder, gentler Trump would’ve lost in the primaries.
