The conventional wisdom is that Democrats are better off without him. But Susan Collins is strong, and Platner’s successors lack much of what made him a threat, writes Mark Halperin.

If you told me a decade ago that antisemites would be increasingly dominant within the Democratic Party, I would have said you were nuts. And yet here we are, writes John Podhoretz.

In the ’70s, my mother gave me a print that read: ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.’ After 25 years of marriage, I couldn’t disagree more.

I was born into poverty, and I believed wealth meant happiness. But F. Scott Fitzgerald taught me that prosperity can destroy you.

By the time I was 13, all I wanted for my birthday was my own bookie.

The people don’t want the truth.

Consuming political outrage all day doesn’t strengthen democracy, writes Arthur Brooks. It just wrecks your mood.

Over Negronis in Washington, D.C., the Australian-born reformed shitposter Nick Adams tells River Page that he’s ‘the brand ambassador for the United States, the top salesman of America.’

It was supposed to be about a happy relationship—but when her heart got broken, she rewrote her lyrics for a generation cynical about love, writes Kat Rosenfield.

The referee of the Argentina-Egypt match isn't Jewish. But when his Wikipedia page was changed to say that he is, an even bigger set of lies about Israel and Jews raced across the internet, writes Ashley Rindsberg.

Since October 7, some have described the Jewish community as in turmoil. Rabbi Joanna Samuels says it’s more tight-knit than ever.

“Two college kids showed up with Clorox, and cameras on their heads—and filmed themselves cleaning,” writes Suzy Weiss. “The footage will train robots. I feel awkward about it.”

Why do we love being mean to each other? Suzy Weiss asked Jeff Ross to explain the art of the roast.

At this Christian men’s retreat, Jesus was the ultimate masculine role model. But amid full-volume trap music, warrior cries, and boot-camp challenges, his presence was sometimes hard to discern, reports Josh Code.

In an era primed for a great UFO movie, the film arrives with impeccable timing and almost nothing interesting to say, writes Will Rahn.

Rumors are swirling that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting hitched at Madison Square Garden. RoseMarie Terenzio says a decoy is a celebrity’s best bet for privacy.

When U.S. sports fans go to a ball game, they are pursuing happiness. But, as Nick Hornby explained in ‘Fever Pitch,’ soccer is entertainment as pain, writes Niall Ferguson.

A volunteer’s ‘SOCIALISM’ bracelet was a hint that New York City’s public turnout campaign for rent-control hearings might not live up to its own rules of neutrality, writes Josh Code.

Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift’s “psychotic” wedding. A poet’s ode to “Little House on the Prairie.” And more in today’s Weekend Press!

California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite, writes Svetlana Jitomirskaya, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley.

Tim Sheehy knows the threat of terrorism firsthand. He explains why U.S. negotiators must remain skeptical of their Iranian counterparts, writes Audrey Fahlberg.

Human trafficking and abuse surged under the old rules, but tighter ID requirements for sponsors may keep children out of predators’ hands, writes Audrey Fahlberg.

When I was growing up, we practiced Judaism only barely. ‘Remember Me to God’, by Myron S. Kaufmann, helped me understand why—and led me to choose differently for my own children, writes Nicholas Lemann.

Political violence today is often fed by ideas from well-established anti-Western institutions, especially radical academia, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

I quit my cushy sales job, borrowed $20,000 from my dad, hauled news racks across Boston in a rented U-Haul with my mom, and hoped a free sports newspaper would catch on. Somehow, it did, writes Dave Portnoy.

Orbán’s Hungary was neither the semi-fascist state its critics claimed, nor the model its admirers imagined. After four years living the experiment, I came home with clearer eyes, writes Rod Dreher.

The ‘Big Bang Theory’ star speaks on Zionism, being confronted in a parking lot, and falling out with the Democratic Party. Politically, she said, ‘I don’t even know what I am anymore.’

The liberal justices and ‘The New York Times’ politicized the case. But the border policy the court upheld accords with the law, writes Jed Rubenfeld.

From the New York Democratic primaries to the America First right, antisemitic obsessions are now an organizing principle of American political life, writes Jonathan Rosen.

The world’s largest encyclopedia was overrun by bias and censorship—and pushed me out when I tried to fix it, writes Larry Sanger.

The anti-AI activist Joe Allen tells Suzy Weiss that he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.

Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift's wedding. Plus: Her ode to ‘Jackass.’ An interview with the standard bearer for MAGA’s anti-AI rage. And more in her newsletter!

The lesson I’ve learned in 60 years as a journalist is that ideology fails to grasp human creativity, and idealism fails to grasp human imperfection. Most people tend to learn that over time, writes Joe Klein.

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is only the latest adaptation of a story that has captivated audiences for three millennia. Here's why the epic poem has never lost its hold on us, writes Daniel Mendelsohn.

After years of estrangement from my family—and the collapse of my public life—I found an unexpected path toward forgiveness in the quiet moral world of Walnut Grove, writes Joseph Massey.

Abdul El-Sayed’s war with the Democratic Party. Why conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk are indestructible. A week with the modern-day Luddites. Olivia Reingold talks to Clavicular. And much more.

River Page went to the much-hyped anti-tech conference, where everyone was wondering: How do you give up apps in a modern world that assumes you have them?

Anthropic’s latest research reveals how Claude reasons internally, but it offers no evidence that AI has the kind of consciousness or experience that make us human, writes Spencer Klavan.

The stronger the evidence becomes, the more elaborate the theories grow. The reason lies in a psychological tendency to seek causes proportionate to consequential events, writes Michael Shermer.

Christianity is all over social media. For a while, I thought my generation might be finding God, writes Freya India. Now I worry we are just finding content about God.

She made herself a formidable justice in the same way she had learned to brand calves, fire a rifle, or turn a bobcat into a house pet while growing up on her parents’ remote Arizona ranch.

Wars aren’t won only with bombs and bullets anymore. America learned the power of economic choke points first, but our adversaries are catching up.

A look into the mediaology behind the allegations against Graham Platner; the pope’s immigration crusade; Candace Owens’ deeply sane week; the influencers’ field trip to the Ayatollah’s funeral. And more in TGIF.

Plus: Paris Hilton’s quest for rich-kid justice, death doulas, and why Americans don’t care about the World Cup.

The New York Philharmonic has spent years chasing politics and prestige. The celebrated conductor will bring back the one thing that matters: music.

Drugs. Fiberoptic cables. Data centers. Thanks to SpaceX, it’s a boon time for manufacturing goods in space.

Muhammad Ali was the greatest heavyweight who ever lived. But his most courageous fights had nothing to do with boxing, writes Peter Richmond.

When I was a teenager, the end of school meant it was time to get to work. Summers spent busing tables was more transformative than a trip to Europe, writes Larissa Phillips.

About six months ago, Jewish leaders nationwide condemned the Gen-Z icon for partying to ‘Heil Hitler.’ Now he’s in Tel Aviv to ‘have a good time,' writes Olivia Reingold.

Josh Smith spent five years behind bars, turned his life around. Now he is trying to deliver on Trump’s criminal-justice reforms, reports P.G. Sittenfeld.