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Newyork
I Was on the Church Committee. The New Republican Version Is an Outrage.
To legitimize otherwise questionable investigations, Congress occasionally labels them after a previous successful effort. Thus, the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives’ proposed select committee, which plans to investigate the ...
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Science
Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to tweak the supreme algorithm?
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Newyork
This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy.
NASHVILLE — January in Nashville ushers in two forces for chaos: erratic weather and irrational legislators. Both are massively disruptive. Neither is surprising anymore. In the age of climate change, Mark Twain’s old joke about New England — if you ...
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Newyork
Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
For decades, the cliché in politics was that “Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line.” The Democratic Party was thought to be a loosely connected cluster of fractious interest groups often at war with itself. “I don’t belong to an ...
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World
‘Emily in Paris’ Star Would Like Your Paris Tips
Lily Collins explores the city, and the world, with the help of Monocle, word searches and Norwegian coffee.
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Newyork
Wonking Out: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Pessimist on Inflation
Thursday’s report on consumer prices was really good news. I mean, really, really good news. The overall Consumer Price Index actually fell slightly for the month of December. We can and should downplay that number, because it was driven in part by ...
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Newyork
How to Help Girls Enduring the Unendurable
NAIROBI, Kenya — She is impossibly young to have endured what she did, and what still haunts her is the job of the man responsible: a police officer. “He said that if I tell, he will kill me,” whispered the 11-year-old girl, whom I’ll call Nancy (the ...
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US
A Conversation With Sam Liccardo, Who Led San Jose for Eight Years
Liccardo, 52, has just stepped down as mayor of California’s third-largest city.
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Newyork
A Smirk, a Smile, a Clenched Fist: What the Movies Taught Me to See
I was seduced by Cate Blanchett in “Tár.” The 1980s ecological disaster in “White Noise” felt eerily familiar to me in our time of climate change. I was struck by how dark Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” was compared with the Disney animated version ...
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US
Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy
History suggests that the procedural plans of the new House Republican majority are likely to lead to more gridlock and legislative instability, not less.