Opinion | Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the Right’s Abnormality Problem
There was a brief period in the later part of the Covid-19 pandemic, between the moment when Glenn Youngkin swept into the Virginia governorship and the full political return of Donald Trump, when I became convinced that American liberalism was headed for a truly epochal defeat in 2024. It seemed then that — under the […]
Three American Climbers Solve the ‘Last Great Problem in the Himalayas’
Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world’s biggest, sheerest rock walls. The void below them was 10,000 feet of thin black air. Above […]
A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages
Buying a home was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Prices, already sky-high, have gotten even higher, up nearly 40 percent over the past three years. Available homes have gotten scarcer: Listings are down nearly 20 percent over the same period. And now interest rates have soared to a 20-year high, eroding […]
A Marriage Problem That Can’t Be Solved
My husband and I are going through a really difficult time in our marriage, and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of advice for how to proceed. We haven’t spoken in more than a year. When the children ask where he is, I don’t know what to say. I have had to take over […]