Month: September 2023

The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket

The G.O.P. has lost a commitment to solving the nation’s problems and become purposeless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/politics/republican-party-trump-racket.html?smid=em-share

In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

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Mitt Romney Has Given Us a Gift

You can’t negotiate with narcissism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/mitt-romney-senate-trump-mcconnell.html?smid=em-share

We all struggle to be the best version of ourselves we can be, and Romney’s struggle is now taking him into retirement and out of the Senate. On the way he gave us a gift, in the form of a series of conversations with The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, who has written a book on him, excerpted in the magazine.

Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom

Will big metros lose their edge? Or will remote work make them stronger?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/cities-zoom-return-to-office.html?smid=em-share

Young People in China Can’t Find Work, and Xi Jinping Has Only One Response

Political repression can’t save the Chinese economy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/opinion/china-youth-unemployment-xi.html?smid=em-share

Corruption Is an Existential Threat to Ukraine, and Ukrainians Know It

The fight against it amounts to a second front in Ukraine’s existential war against Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/ukraine-war-corruption.html?smid=em-share

Corruption Is an Existential Threat to Ukraine, and Ukrainians Know It

The fight against it amounts to a second front in Ukraine’s existential war against Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/ukraine-war-corruption.html?smid=em-share

Can Samantha Power Win the Battle for Ukraine’s Future?

A country’s postwar success would be a rebuke to the idea that the free world is in terminal decline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opinion/power-ukraine-foreign-aid.html?smid=em-share

A Hidden Reason Cities Fall Apart

The loss of civic and corporate elites played a huge role in the erosion of urban life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opinion/cities-elites-baltimore-pittsburgh.html?smid=em-share