May 7, 2025 Issue

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FEATURE

Elon’s exit: Lessons in government-cutting as Musk prepares to step back

by W. James Antle III

✪ Pete Hegseth’s hard choices: Today’s decisions and tomorrow’s military

by Salena Zito

✪ Delusions of grandeur: How presidents misread mandates and miss their moments

by Isaac Schorr

✪ Pentagon problems: It’s been a rough road for many defense secretaries

by Tevi Troy

✪ Who built Gaza’s metro? Foreign aid made tunnel network possible

by Sean Durns

Your Land

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Despite what you may hear, young women are still interested in men

by Conn Carroll

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Taking the school bus to the teachers union

by Emma Fuentes

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Marriage in the age of autonomy

by Timothy P. Carney

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AI makes a fraudulent mark in education

by Zachary Faria

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Renaissance man Trump helps Italians make Columbus Day great again

by Christopher Tremoglie

Business

BUSINESS

US-Canada travel craters

by John Scott Lewinski

BUSINESS

A bit over 100 days in, what part of the economy can Trump still blame on Biden?

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Trouble at the northern border

Washington Briefing

Ex-football star Herschel Walker, who lost 2022 Georgia Senate race, is Trump’s pick to be US ambassador in Bahamas

Trump tariff rollout flummoxes congressional Democrats

Top commanders warn US unprepared for war with China as Trump weighs troop reductions in the Indo-Pacific

by Jamie McIntyre

Tech shifts right, somewhat, but minus the Old Guard’s views on trade

by Dain Fitzgerald

The Columnists

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Timothy P. Carney

Pope Francis saw the plague of alienation

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Dominic Green

Borgia liberalism

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Dan Hannan

India and Pakistan are our future

Life & Arts

On Culture

Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ seeks to unite Americans during 250th anniversary of brutal conflict for independence

Books

Review of ‘Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell’ by Gabe Henry

by Michael M. Rosen

Life in Uniform

Stairway to hell

TV

‘Black Mirror’ lives in our bleak future

Books

The real Edward Gorey

by Alan Levinovitz

Books

By Georgia: Review of ‘Origins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry’ by William PA Hunt

by Peter Tonguette

Film

Ryan Coogler at the crossroads

Long Life

Of rashes and regulatory burdens

More from the Magazine

Business

US-Canada travel craters

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Obituary

David Horowitz, 1939–2025

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