Slow Boring — Archive

This funding fight — and possible shutdown — exposes institutional failures that have allowed ICE to skirt standard law-enforcement protocols.

Plus flags, Morris Katz, teacher training, and the classics of Russian literature

New polling from The Argument shows skepticism about Trump’s handling of Minneapolis — and has Democrats in the lead.

Politicians should try something that actually works.

Plus local experiments and policy reforms

You can’t fight what you can’t measure or define.

Slip-sliding around

A short-term success that laid the groundwork for long-term disaster in Israel and Palestine

The combination of open seats and recent Democratic overperformance is producing a midterm map that looks unusually fluid.

You can’t just kill people and then lie about the victims.

A decision that could unravel more than a century of legal precedent

Say that five times fast.

A somewhat surprising, totally terrible, borderline unfixable Trump legacy