My recent trip to China shows the incredible material progress for its citizens and contributions to the world's clean energy future, but also the dangers of their authoritarian system in The AI Age

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore. Related

A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.

The risk of a nuclear weapon being used is as high today as any time in modern history. We’re living in an age of disinformation and misinformation as tensions escalate and wars rage in regions with nuclear weapons. For the first time in 40 years, the number of nuclear weapons in the world is expected to go up More about the movie

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity. Excerpt: " His defiance echoed a familiar script in the modern Charismatic Christian playbook: a populist, right-wing persecution complex, where powerful religious leaders take on Jesus’ oppression as their own. Casting themselves as victims of a hosti

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment. Excerpt: ' “If you could go back to your younger self—say, six years after you’d graduated from high school—what would you ask?” I thought about it for a second and then said, “I’m not so sure I’d ask my younger self anything, but here’s what I’d tell her: that she needs to remember to listen more carefully to the voice inside her hea

The fraying of my family and our working-class hometown

How he used America’s past to rescue its future

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

The Washington Post reviewed leaked audio from four off-the-record lectures the tech investor delivered in San Francisco over the past...

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DM Try as I'm able, I simply don't understand we humans' apparently dismal trajectory. The more rigorous are my thoughts, and the more...

Political divisions have weakened the U.S. and strengthened its global adversaries.

The vaccine has virtually eliminated childhood infections of a disease that doesn’t only transmit through drugs or sex

We’re wired to shy away from change, resist endings, and cling to what we know.