The magic of making maple syrup
‘The reason maple syrup tastes so good is because there’s love in every jar’
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Donald Trump and the clash of realities
Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?
The former president came into office as an agent of chaos, but his foreign policy ended up relatively stable. Will that change in a second term?
The Supreme Court takes on the administrative state
Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce both involve bizarre fishing rules
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
Why the luxury life feels alien
When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas
The LaPierre legacy
The man who built the National Rifle Association into a juggernaut leaves it in disarray
The curious case of Botox babies
One of the most entrenched rules in life is that the grass is always greener on the other side. It seems doubly true for women
How the tradwife killed the girlboss age
That this particular little niche engenders such blowback says a lot — not about the influencers, but about us
Why is Generation Z so undersexed?
The answer could lie in the decline of mystique
‘Maybe I have the healing I need’: speaking to Father Paul Wierichs
The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too
2024 and the invasion at the southern border
The destruction of the country for the sake of temporary partisan advantage seems a high price to pay
Searching for the energy at the New Hampshire primary
Biden was invisible, Trump inevitable, nothing much left to say
How foreign policy will impact the 2024 election
Biden’s decision-making is making America weaker on the world stage. But would a second Trump term be all that much better?