We’re thrilled to open applications for the second cohort of The Argument Fellowship, a yearlong, full-time program designed to train the next generation of opinion journalists. Fellows in our program ...

Editor’s note: The first essay The Argument ever published asked, “How do we live with each other?” To mark our first anniversary, we’re returning to that founding question with a series about what we ...

Doherty is one of the most irritating people on the internet, an influencer whose entire shtick consists of actively ...

To some on the right, the very fact that they got embarrassed was its own form of conspiracy. Once it became clear that there ...

Rubio argues that the modern West has lost touch with the spirit that animated the Greeks: “Over time, we in the West came to ...

Today’s AIs can do really hard things: conduct elaborate computer hacks, edit their own logs to conceal their activities, steal user credentials and private information from other companies, and ...

To virtually anyone watching the 2024 election, one of the biggest shocks of the cycle was the way young and Hispanic voters zoomed toward Donald Trump. Two years later, it’s difficult to find signs ...

According to both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, what the U.S. military is doing in Iran is not a war.

Like many girls of my generation, I read Twilight in middle school. One thing that was notable about the book was author Stephenie Meyer’s reticence to provide her main character, Bella Swan, with ...

Growing up in a household where both of my parents had graduate degrees, I got one piece of emphatic advice about graduate school: I should only do a program that would pay me, not one that wanted me ...

Paying subscribers can get an ad-free version of the podcast in any podcast app. To learn how, click here. Last year, Derek Thompson — perhaps best known as a columnist for The Argument — wrote a ...