Benjamin Wallace-Wells

During the President's second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE.

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn't true.

The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.

It's been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats' Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?

Max Miller’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of Ohio’s senior senator—is testing the Republican Party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.

As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”

The Meta settlement will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram. It also reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech.