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Sliding Toward a New Cold War
Not since the Berlin Wall fell has the world been cleaved so deeply by the kind of conflict that John F. Kennedy called a “long, twilight struggle.”
February 26, 2023
A Year of Putin’s Wartime Lies
Every credible analyst of the invasion of Ukraine has been stunned by the scale of the Russian President’s folly—and his failure extends well beyond the battlefield.
February 19, 2023
The New G.O.P. Takes the Country Hostage with the Debt Ceiling
Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.
February 5, 2023
Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History
The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.
January 29, 2023
The Biden-Documents Mess
House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.
January 22, 2023
Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans’ Rocky Road Ahead
With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed?
January 15, 2023
The Dire Aftermath of China’s Untenable “Zero COVID” Policy
Why did the nation, which suppressed the virus for years, fail to prepare for the inevitable?
January 8, 2023
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
December 23, 2022
Brittney Griner and the Role of Race in Diplomacy
Griner’s release recalls the lessons of the effort to free Robert Goodman, an African American Navy navigator, from Syria.
December 17, 2022
A Supreme Court Case That Threatens the Mechanisms of Democracy
At stake in Moore v. Harper is the question of how elections should be run—and who should resolve the inevitable disputes when they arise.
December 11, 2022
