The fall of the Birkin bag
The luxury handbag is at odds with the TikTok age
Features
Sunday
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
In Taiwan and Ukraine, we are at the start of a perilous new era
What kind of king will Charles III be?
The early signs are that kingship suits the new monarch
How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction
Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs!
What price must the West pay for Crimea?
We cannot leave the most consequential decisions for humanity to be made by Moscow
The radical alternative to a hospital birth
Some women are forgoing medical care entirely and giving birth at home unassisted
The Christian nationalism boogeyman
The left’s latest panic has obscured the GOP’s rising secularism
It’s the parallel economy, stupid!
When they said ‘build your own internet,’ some conservatives took it seriously
Have we finally reached Peak Pride?
Gay pride has been very much on my mind lately
Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars
Why his call to arms still resonates today
The deep sleep state
Bureaucrats have become addicted to working (or not) from home
Will the opioid enablers ever pay?
Big Pharma created a vast market of addicted consumers
Sunday
Nuclear power is the answer to our energy woes
Once the bête noire of energy, nuclear has been experiencing a renaissance of late
Tuesday
The Biden ultimatum
Joe Biden launched into midterm campaigning with a strategy of demonization
Here come the Hispanic Republicans
Latinos are voting exactly like an earlier wave of immigrants
Dobbs won’t save the Democrats
In a choice between abortion absolutism and a variety of approaches, variety will prevail
Joe Biden and the Sovietization of America
What does it mean that he’s demonized half the country?
Where the Tea Party went wrong
Can the right’s new populists avoid its mistakes?
Connecticut and the rise of blue-state MAGA Republicans
Caught between Trump and wanting conservatives who can win
Queen Elizabeth II made a difference — to Britain and the world
Her commitment to duty was remarkable