David Cole
Free Speech for TikTok?

As the Supreme Court decides whether to let the US ban a hugely popular social media platform, it can either learn from its earlier mistakes or repeat them.

Yi-Ling Liu
Planet TikTok

The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm helped it spread around the world. If the US bans it, what would be lost?

—July 9, 2024

Caroline Fraser
Dispirited Away

The rise and fall of an evangelical church, founded with progressive intentions and undone by dissension and bad faith

David Shulman
A Deadly Apathy

A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience.

Trevor Jackson
‘Never Too Much’

If globalization has allowed elites to remove themselves from democratic accountability and regulation, is there any path toward a just economy?

Free from the Archives

In the Review’s August 16, 2018, issue—three months before the Camp Fire in Butte County, California, became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history—William Finnegan wrote about the worsening firestorms breaking out across the Western Seaboard. Due to a combination of government mismanagement and the multifarious consequences of global warming—the largest recorded outbreak of bark-beetle infestation resulted in billions of dead, dry trees, “fine kindling for a megafire”—the annual fire season is getting longer and more intense, Finnegan wrote, destroying homes and habitats and releasing untold toxins into the atmosphere. “Political decisions have put us on this track,” he noted. “Different political decisions might slow our momentum toward catastrophic overheating. Unfortunately, the Trump administration shows little awareness of what’s at stake.”

William Finnegan
California Burning

“Individual fires…are bigger, hotter, faster, more expensive and difficult to fight, and more destructive than ever before. We have entered the era of the megafire—defined as a wildfire that burns more than 100,000 acres.”

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