Best Of: Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
For years, Agnes Callard has been on a mission to take ethical philosophy out of the ivory tower. She examines everyday human experiences — jockeying for status, navigating jealousy, marriage — with d...
13 Feb 20241h 22min
Building the Palestinian State With Salam Fayyad
“If only we had a partner for peace.”That’s been the refrain in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for as long as I’ve followed it. But the truth is you don’t need just a partner — you need two partners ...
9 Feb 20241h 5min
What Relationships Would You Want, if You Believed They Were Possible?
Around 40 percent of people who marry eventually get a divorce. Almost half of children are born to unmarried women. The number of close friends Americans report having has been on a steep decline sin...
6 Feb 202459min
‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’
Political analysts used to say that the Democratic Party was riding a demographic wave that would lead to an era of dominance. But that “coalition of the ascendant” never quite jelled. The party did b...
1 Feb 20241h 9min
‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’
If you’re a Democrat, how worried should you be right now? It’s strangely hard to answer that question. On the one hand, polls suggest Democrats should be very worried. President Biden looks weaker th...
25 Jan 20241h 8min
‘I Have No Idea How This Ends. I’ve Never Seen It So Broken.’
It’s been just over 100 days since Hamas’s attack on Israel, and the costs of the war are staggering. In polling from late fall, 64 percent of Gazans reported that a family member had been killed or i...
19 Jan 20241h 8min
A Republican Pollster on Trump’s Undimmed Appeal
The fact that Donald Trump is the front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination in 2024 has created a chasm in our politics. In the past, Democrats and Republicans at least understood why members of the othe...
16 Jan 202448min
Should Trump Be Barred From the Ballot?
There’s this incredible dissonance at the center of our politics right now. On the one hand, all the polling suggests that Donald Trump is about to win Iowa Republican caucuses and the New Hampshire p...
12 Jan 20241h 2min
