Stairs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, April 9, 2026. “The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday on the Voting Rights Act is a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach,” writes The New York Times’ Editorial Board. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Supreme Court’s decision last Wednesday on the Voting Rights Act is a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach. Six conservative justices voted to weaken the act, in that way substituting t

Doses of measles vaccine are prepared at a public health fair at The University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. Neighboring Spartanburg County is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. (Kaoly Gutierrez/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The resurgence of measles — a terrible disease that can swell the brain and cause permanent disabilities or death — is alarming enough on its own. There have been

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), second from left, is escorted to a safe room after gunfire at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball game practice in 2017. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS President Donald Trump erupted in anger at CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell after she read him excerpts from what is said to be a m

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2026. (Aleksey Kondratyev/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist. The right, naturally, sees Allen as part of a pattern, lumping him in with figures like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired on Donald Trump in 2024, grazing his ear; Ryan Wesley Routh, who carried a semi

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 148th Artillery Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By DAVID FRENCH A remarkable thing has happened on the world’s battlefields. Ukraine — a nation that was supposed to dissolve within days of a Russian invasion — has fought Russia to a stalemate, revolutionizing land warfare in the process. It has become an indispensable security partner in the Western alliance, including in the war ag

Elon Musk is interviewed at the 2023 New York Times DealBook Summit, in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 2023. The prominence of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose identification requirements for voter registration nationwide, owes a great debt to Musk. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT This week’s action in the Senate yielded a predictable setback for the SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose identification requirements for voter registration nationwide. Co

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., March 7, 2025. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS University administrators sometimes ask how their institutions can best serve democracy. For decades, many believed that their role was to serve as instruments of social change. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs, especially in hiring and admissions, were one part of the tool kit. Politicized academic departme

Family members grieve as a convoy of ambulances carrying the coffins of their loved ones arrive in the southern Lebanese village of Bazourieh for a mass funeral, on Monday, April 20, 2026. Families gathered for the funeral of nine people — both Hezbollah fighters and civilians — who were killed in recent weeks. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD If you are looking for two pictures that summarize where Israel’s geopolitical strategy under Prime Mini

A mural depicting the Strait of Hormuz in Tehran, April 13, 2026. “Iran’s regime,” Times columnist Bret Stephens writes, “can have an economy. Or the regime can attempt to have a nuclear program while trying to control the Strait of Hormuz. But it can’t have both.” (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS “The easiest method for the United States to reopen Hormuz,” I wrote last Tuesday, “is to start seizing tankers carrying Iranian crude once they reach the Arabi

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral lunch at the White House in Washington, Nov. 7, 2025. Orban and his right-wing playbook were embraced by parts of the American right — now some are worried by his defeat. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT The defeat of Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary’s parliamentary elections may usher in a new era in Western commentary, when neither conservatives nor li