Cast your mind far, far back, to November of 2024. Trump had just been elected. Americans were divided and unsteady. But the stock market wasn’t: It was thrilled. Stocks hit all-time highs on the news, and the value of the dollar surged.   The vibes were very different across the Atlantic. European stocks fell, driven by […]

Over the past decade, the synthetic drug fentanyl has devastated the United States, killing more than a quarter of a million Americans, making it, according to some officials, the deadliest drug in US history.   And over the past two months, even amid signs that the fentanyl crisis is starting to wane, the drug has also […]

At midnight one day in spring 2023, a team of animal rights investigators decked out in biosecurity gear snuck onto a massive chicken farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an hour and a half drive from Baltimore. The operation was raising some 75,000 birds for Mountaire Farms, the nation’s fourth-largest chicken company. When the investigator Joseph […]

It’s been a big week for the group chat.  On Monday, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a story revealing that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added him to a Signal thread where top Trump cabinet members were discussing upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  First, the Trump administration denied that top Trump officials shared […]

I was an English major in college, and my favorite poet was the first-generation Romantic William Wordsworth. For one thing, there’s the name, the best example of nominative determinism in the annals of English literature. But what I most love about Wordsworth is the way he acts as a bridge between the formal, at times […]