The Best of 2025 | Roundtable

Not a good look for the administration.

Plus: The Supreme Court hears arguments in the Lisa Cook firing case, whistleblowers leak internal ICE memo, and Patagonia goes after a drag queen.

Our political words—like ‘conservatism’—actually need to mean something.

Plus: Australia passes new gun control and hate speech laws, markets react to Trump’s Greenland tariffs, and Staten Island has some award-winning toilets.

The virtues of Trump’s Greenland folly.

For an ancient city like Mosul, postwar restoration is about making it old again.

Jonah has a rule about long subtitles.

Plus: An update on Lisa Cook's case against the Trump administration.