In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, when he dared to call George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq “a big fat mistake” and “the worst decision any one has made, any president has made, in the history of this country.”| Compact
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it does not expect to do research.| Compact
Of all the technical flaws in the badly broken international trade system, the one most intuitive to the layman is the race to the bottom on labor.| Compact
This Friday, Donald Trump will host Vladimir Putin for a summit in Alaska, the first time an American president has met the Russian leader since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.| Compact
“But crime is going down!” That’s what many liberal thought leaders are bleating lately, and who can blame them?| Compact
Catherine Lacey is a writer of extraordinary gifts, with hard-earned adult wisdom and the kind of effortless sentence-to-sentence felicity that makes any writer reading her strongly consider pursuing alternate careers.| Compact
While the Gaza Strip lies in rubble, the cause of Palestinian freedom seems on the verge of a global breakthrough.| Compact