In a living room in western Pennsylvania, the Republican National Convention was on TV, and Melanie Austin was getting impatient. “Who’s that guy?” she said, watching some billionaire talk about prosp
This piece was published in Christianity Today on September 8, 2016. Reposted with permission. I have not publicly endorsed a presidential candidate in 44 years. But this year—the most important presi
Opinion Can You Have a Good Life if You Don’t Have a Good Job? Credit... Keith Negley SHOULD the goal of public policy be to ensure that all Americans can have good jobs — or good lives? Politicians o
A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to meet the team that would help shape Iraq's future once the troops
A Playboy for President Donald Trump in 2003 with Victoria Silvstedt, 1997 playmate of the year, left, and his future wife, Melania Knauss, at a Playboy event. IN a different campaign or era, it would
I wrote last week about the new nonfiction book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, the Yale Law School graduate who grew up in the poverty and chaos of an App
From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites. All Americans deserve better. I’m just a poor white trash motherfucker. No one cares abou
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I play it cool/I dig all jive/That's the reason I stay alive. —Langston Hughes PHILADELPHIA—On the crowded convention floor on Wednesday night, as the President of the United States gave his heart and
The Governing Cancer of Our Time We live in a big, diverse society. There are essentially two ways to maintain order and get things done in such a society — politics or some form of dictatorship. Eith
THE horns have sounded and the hounds are baying. Across the developed world the hunt for more taxes from the wealthy is on. Recent austerity budgets in France and Italy slapped 3% surcharges on those
Let me tell you the story of an "unskilled" worker in America who lived better than most of today’s college graduates. In the winter of 1965, Rob Stanley graduated from Chicago Vocational High School,
Democracies end when they are too democratic. And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny. Illustration by Zohar Lazar As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being
The anti-Shkreli argument asks us to be shocked that a medical executive is motivated by profit. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / GETTY On Thursday morning, the most reviled person in America
There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference
F riday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obam
Racial Justice Investigating America’s racial divide in education, housing and beyond. This story is not subject to our Creative Commons license. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s ho
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi
Back in 2008, Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich wrote an article for this magazine making a conservative case for Barack Obama. While much of it was based on disgust with the warmongering an
The drones came for Ayman Zawahiri on 13 January 2006, hovering over a village in Pakistan called Damadola . Ten months later, they came again for the man who would become al-Qaida’s leader, this time
At the core of Barack Obama’s terrorism speech on Sunday night lay a contradiction. He gave the address to convince an increasingly fearful nation that he takes the terrorist threat seriously. But he
What if I told you I had a Justin Bieber story that would break your heart? Or at the very least, put an asterisk on what you think of him? No, listen: About five years ago, Pastor Carl got a phone ca
Adam, So first of all, congrats on that last post you had in Salon . Apparently you digging deep into your inner hypocrisy was more interesting to people than our attempted take down of Rachel Dolezal
Photo Mike Weisser Credit Jennifer Mascia Nicholas Kristof’s call for a “new strategy” to combat gun violence is both necessary and compelling, but the solutions he advances — in particular changing h
16 min read · Feb 7, 2016 -- T he case for Hillary Clinton is mostly a matter of rebutting the case against her. Once that’s done, you’re simply left with the most qualified candidate, and someone who
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as…
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On the second day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s imprisonment in a Birmingham jail, a guard slipped him a copy of the morning paper. By the dim light of his cell, King read the tall black letters that he
Credit... Photo Illustration by Andrea D'Aquino Definitive answers to the big questions. Credit... Photo Illustration by Andrea D'Aquino By Ms. Rosen is a journalist with a Ph.D. in geology. Her resea
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 14. An audio
The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 14. An audio recording of it can be found here . —The Editors President Obama
A nerd who just found out about the filibuster. (Shutterstock) We live in an age of nerds. Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when read
I t takes a streak of foolhardiness to answer the question “What are you optimistic about?” Because any response would seem to taunt the fates to prove one wrong. But in 2007 I took the bait and ventu
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“Sometimes I think we’ve been at it for an hour. Then I’ll look at the clock.” Photo: FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images In 2012, Kanye West successfully halted the distribution of a sex tape reportedly
Pope Francis’ recent visit to the United States, his first since becoming pope, provided an opportunity of a lifetime for one Seventh-day Adventist musician, but the story proved too contentious for o
So let's talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And
Eighty percent of North American teenagers are currently in an orthodontist’s care, with the recommended average age of a first visit now 7. Photo: Bobby Doherty “ Start check!” a technician called, a
Offense 8/26/2015 On June 17th, Dylan Roof ended the Bible-study meeting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston by killing nine people. He was introduced to the world by his blog on the following day. Al
Art by Laura Plageman As a young naturalist growing up in the Deep South, I feared kudzu. I’d walk an extra mile to avoid patches of it and the writhing knots of snakes that everyone said were breedin
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