Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

“They're not human beings”

Ukraine and the words that lead to mass murder

Biden Announces Program Offering Discounted Internet Service

President Joe Biden announced that 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes, a program that could effectively make tens of millions of households eligible for free service through an already existing federal subsidy.

The Woman Who Killed Roe

Marjorie Dannenfelser's single-minded pursuit of an end to abortion.

Blue -or Bluer

In Pennsylvania and Texas, democratic voters face clear ideological choices that could signal the party's direction

In election misinformation fight, '2020 changed everything'

Beth Bowers grew up in the 1960s and 1970s with parents who marched in protests, wrote letters to members of Congress and voted in elections big and small.

An Uncertain Future for Ukrainian Refugees

The majority of the 12 million displaced by the war with Russia may never be able to go home

Why a Wealth Tax Is a Bad Idea

Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.

America's Nuclear Reluctance

ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, Oregon’s NuScale Power signed an agreement with the Polish mining and processing firm KGHM to deploy NuScale’s innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Poland by 2029.

Ukrainians Find Refuge in Previously Unwelcoming Places

Immigration

William Ruger on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

William Ruger, who holds a Ph.D. in politics specializing in foreign policy, is the newly appointed president of the American Institute for Economic Research. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he was a prominent voice in calling for U.S. withdrawal from that country. He was picked by former President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Afghanistan, but his nomination was never voted on.

Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?

WE’RE NOT JUST fighting an epidemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. “We’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus and is just as dangerous.”

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns

Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether.

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Zuckerberg Money Won't Be in Next Round of Aid for Elections

The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 said that it won’t disburse similar donations this year after backlash from conservatives suspicious that the contributions tilted the outcome of the presidential race toward Joe Biden.

The Price of Complacency

The White House and Congress are fighting over pocket change even though the pandemic is still a threat

A Big-Time Hedge Funder Goes Full Maga

David McCormick—former Bridgewater CEO, ex-Army paratrooper, and U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania— could be just the man to lead the GOP into a post-Trump era. He definitely isn’t doing it yet

The Patron Saint of Stuck Presidencies

What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman

'Shock and Awful'

Russian forces, fully prepared and operating from Russian soil, were able to move just tens of miles into an adjoining country. What Putin's military weakness means for the west.

A Bellwether for Democrats

The race for a newly created Colorado U.S. House seat may depend on Latino voters and offers some clues about the November midterms

Big Tech Grapples With Russian State Media, Propaganda

As Russia’s war in Ukraine plays out for the world on social media, big tech platforms are moving to restrict Russian state media from using their platforms to spread propaganda and misinformation.

War via Tiktok: Russia's New Tool for Propaganda Machine

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda.

The Money Game: Kevin T. Dugan

The Seize of Moscow. How far can Joe Biden push economic sanctions?

The Object of Their Ire

Letitia James has earned the wrath of Andrew Cuomo. She’s investigating Donald Trump. Can she prevail over two of the meanest men in politics?

The Influencer

The totally out-of-this-world tale of the fugitive chinese tycoon who has joined forces with Steve Bannon to blanket the web with far-right propaganda

Adrift, Broke, and Disillusioned

How a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left.

'We Change or We Die'

The Gop's Bet on Black Conservatives is Playing Off

After Trayvon

This February will mark ten years since his death sparked a movement. But ten years on, are Black lives any safer? Featuring Derecka Purnell on Sybrina Fulton’s grief; Michael Arceneaux on George Zimmerman’s acquittal; Elizabeth Hinton on the return of mass protest; Sean Campbell on the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter organization; Brittney Cooper on standing your ground while Black; Ramsey Orta, Feidin Santana, Abdullah Muflahi, and Diamond Reynolds on the long-lasting consequences of filming police killings; and more.

The BLM Mystery: Where Did the Money Go?

In early April 2021, Ziploc bags filled with rocks and Ku Klux Klan flyers were thrown on lawns and dropped on street corners around Huntington Beach, California.