Is It True That If You’re Explaining, You’re Losing?
Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico have taken opposite approaches to fending off Republican attacks.
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Summer 2026 Print Edition
In this issue
A Different Kind of College Ranking
How Online Algorithms Rig the College Search Process
Best Colleges for Rural America
America’s Best Colleges for Research
Politics
The Senate’s Surprisingly Populist Permitting Reform Deal
A bipartisan bill could lower electricity costs and speed the green energy transition by targeting utilities.
Education
Time to Teach Three Years of High School Civics
Schools are failing to teach students the advantages of liberal democracy—and the dangers of what could replace it.
Newsletter
Democrats’ Next Big Ideas
Third Way offers a “new economic bargain” with the middle-class: “If you’re busting your butt, you should be able to get ahead.”
Podcast
Why Political Polling Seems So Unreliable
Law and Justice
The Unheralded End of Mass Incarceration
America’s prison population is plummeting thanks to lower crime rates. The consequences are extraordinary.
The Monopolized Economy
How to Govern the Pacing of the AI Frontier
Big AI’s call for an antitrust exemption is a ruse. Here’s the right way to structure AI safety talks until we have real leadership in Congress and the White House.
Health Care
Before the Fall
The number of Americans without health insurance is soaring this year. Last week’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured rate for 2025 is the last good news we’ll get for a while.
Russia’s War on Ukraine
Europe Struggles to Respond to Russian Attacks
Ukrainians warn their Western allies: “Putin is at war with you, too.”
Books
Hannah Arendt’s Life in Friendship
The many bonds the German theorist built and maintained across disagreements were beautiful—and ungeneralizable to America’s crisis of comradery today.
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