The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it. Zoë Hu ▪ ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted ...

The New Press, 2024, 400 pp. Last fall, the waters rose in Appalachia and did not stop until many were dead and many more were homeless. As the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through the region, I ...

With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same. Gabriel Winant ▪ November 8, 2024 A campaign bus parked near an empty field after Kamala ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

With over 150 million copies sold, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling prose narratives of the twentieth century and remains beloved by fans across the globe. The ...

Matt and Sam welcome Dorothy Fortenberry back to the podcast to discuss gender, the 2024 election, and whether or not women can run against “the System.” Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ ...

In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are poised to uphold bans on medicine for transgender minors. According to Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who is ...