Comment Podcast
A weekly reading of the magazine's "Comment" essay.
The Health-Care Defense
The latest Republican effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act appears likely to reach the Supreme Court in the heat of the 2020 Presidential race.
Margin Call
In the first Democratic debates, radical ideas were as much at the center of the action as at the fringes.
Continental Shift
The unsettled mood after the European Parliamentary elections makes this a dangerous moment, but also a potentially promising one.
No Mercy
Another migrant child has died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a system where the quality of mercy is under extreme strain.
The Threat to Roe
State legislators have proposed Draconian new laws on the assumption that, when they come before the Supreme Court, they will be used to vanquish Roe v. Wade once and for all.
Last Chances
People easily forget “last of” stories about individual species, but the loss of nature also threatens our existence.
No Rules
Serving as Trump’s Attorney General—and keeping the job—seems to mean treating anything that does not serve his interests as an urgent threat.
Twenty for 2020
Polls show that Democrats want someone who is “electable,” but there is little agreement about what that term means.