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I care a lot about climate change. Does that mean I can never ever fly?
Editor’s note, July 12, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below was originally published in January 2025. This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism: the…
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‘Get your tinfoil’: MAGA chases ‘conspiracy’ clicks hours after Lindsey Graham’s death
Just hours after the ‘sudden’ death of Sen. Lindsey Graham was announced to the public, MAGA conspiracy theorists began chasing traffic with wild claims about the cause. Questions do remain after Graham’s office released an statement Sunday morning that was short on detail. “On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed…
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The Return of the Democratic Manly Man
Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.” Poindexter’s own manliness credentials…
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EMS audio reveals new details on Lindsey Graham’s sudden death: ‘CPR in progress now’
New details regarding the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) emerged Sunday after veteran journalist Dave Statter obtained audio of the emergency medical services (EMS) radio traffic from the call. “Emergency radio traffic indicates that Senator Lindsey Graham suffered chest pains before going into cardiac arrest Saturday night,” Statter wrote Sunday morning in a…
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It’s Not Just Annoying, It’s Inescapable
If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain suspicious rhetorical device appears again and again in the play. It’s in Act I, Scene ii: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” In Act III, Scene ii: “Not that…
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What’s in a name? A confounding U.S. Senate race
As the fight for control of the U.S. Senate grows increasingly competitive, eyes are turning north to Alaska and a contest pitting, among its contestants, Dan Sullivan vs. Dan Sullivan — and, no, it’s not about a candidate living a double life or wrestling demons within himself. Confused? That may be the point. Daniel S.…
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NATO Is Going Strong, Actually
Donald Trump has long treated NATO like a punching bag, leading many observers to proclaim the demise of the Western alliance. Some analysts have called NATO “a zombie alliance.” Others have announced that the United States is decoupling from Europe, or have pronounced the North Atlantic pact “dead in the water.” And yet, the quiet…
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Should I make my kids beneficiaries of my IRA?
Dear Liz: Since retiring, I’ve been converting a traditional pre-tax IRA to a Roth IRA. I’ve got another small pre-tax account that I could do the same with. My reason for converting is that my spouse has a very large pre-tax IRA that probably won’t be used up in our lifetimes, and I don’t want…
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How VAR, a system designed to correct errors, became this World Cup’s biggest villain
Croatia’s World Cup was seconds away from being over and Portugal was seconds away from the round of 16 when Ivan Perisic sent a long, desperate cross into the penalty area. The ball bounced off bodies like a pinball before magically, unbelievably, caroming into the net. Gooooooallllllll!!!! Fate had given Croatia a reprieve. But as…
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‘So sad!’ Trump reacts to sudden death of Lindsey Graham — promises ‘details to follow’
President Donald Trump reacted to the sudden and unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) early Sunday morning, while also claiming more details would be forthcoming. “Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “He was always working,…