Think Past the Establishment
Three young children are dead, killed by their mother, while a jury considers whether Lindsay Clancy understood and controlled her actions. The case has focused heavily on her disputed mental condition, but it also raises a larger moral question shaped by more than fifty years of legalized abortion: what happens when a culture makes a child’s right to live dependent on a mother’s circumstances, judgment or distress?
Sixty percent of registered voters say the country is moving in the wrong direction, up from 54 percent in March. Dissatisfaction reaches 66 percent among independent and nonpartisan voters, but nearly one-quarter of true independents remain unsure about the country’s direction, suggesting widespread discontent has not yet hardened into support for either party.
More than 5 percent of American children are now homeschooled, and the movement is substantially more racially and economically diverse than its critics assume. With private schools increasingly unaffordable and public-school performance uneven, many middle- and working-class families regard teaching children at home as the most attainable version of a good education.
Russian electronic warfare has exposed how easily GPS-guided weapons can be jammed or deceived. American researchers are developing quantum-navigation systems that use gravity, magnetism and movement instead of satellite signals, potentially protecting military operations, aircraft, ships and critical civilian infrastructure.
Five years after the final American withdrawal, Afghanistan is safer from open warfare but governed by a more disciplined Taliban regime. Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar finds improved security and officials seeking development alongside severe poverty, disappearances, torture and the near-total exclusion of women from public life.
New York City’s booming tax collections have not produced fiscal stability. They have allowed municipal spending to grow nearly $30 billion since Eric Adams’s first budget while concealing permanent obligations, rising labor costs and dependence on a small group of high earners whose income is unusually volatile.