Megan McArdle

Universities took prestige, public support for granted. Trump is making them pay the price.

Another reformer sets out to find the mythical riches in our massive federal budget.

Progressives overreacted during the first Trump administration. The president’s supporters should not fall into a similar trap.

Elon Musk’s cutbacks at Twitter might have worked. The federal government is a different beast.

We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.

Americans are unlikely to let TikTok propagandists in China influence them

Meta says fact-checkers at Facebook and Instagram turned into censors. It had to end.

Technological change is about to speed up, perhaps beyond our ability to adapt.

A puppy reminds us to appreciate all the less glamorous things about love.

America is about to find out whether tit-for-tat politics is the new normal.

The GOP’s latest flirtation with a government shutdown shows the lack of a meaningful agenda.